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This can be annoying if you want to pause the video to look closely at something.

• magnetowasright 2y ago
  On the very rare occasion I use youtube, the stuff that already pops up on the bottom of the video on pause (video recs?) was already annoying. If they're keeping that and adding ads as well, a paused video is going to look like early '00s web to me lol
• wodenokoto 2y ago
  Yeah and lots of videos expects you to pause and read some texts.
• klyrs 2y ago
  Or if you want to pause for conversation
• Terr_ 2y ago
  "Genie, I wish that Youtube would practice customer-centric design to support customer needs and use-cases." *poof* "It is done." "Hey, this isn't what I wished for! This video experience is crap!" "To them you are not the customer. You are a resource. Their customers are advertisers and they are happy with these changes."
• l72 2y ago
  I find everything about youtube's player to be infuriating. It has completely driven me off the platform, and caused me to set up tube archivist with a jellyfin plugin, so I can just watch all my videos through jellyfin. This has the advantage of no annoying pop-ups over the videos, I can pause, resume where I left off, and actually have a decent platform to keep track of videos I have/haven't watched. Not to mention, it removes ads. Even for one off videos, I get so frustrated by youtube's interface I leave or end up just using yt-dlp. I don't understand how anyone actually likes youtube (I don't mean the content, but the actual site).