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I wish there was a 2.25x YouTube option for "normal" humans. I already use every shortcut, and listen at 2x 90% of the time. But Andrej I can't take faster than

• zamadatix 1y ago
  YouTube ran an experiment with up to 4x playback on mobile (???) but it went away in February. I get a lot of the experiments they do being experiments but why just allowing the slider to go farther is such a back and forth hoopla is beyond me. It's one of the oft touted features of 3rd party apps and extensions with nearly 0 UI impact to those who don't want to use it (just don't slide the slider past 2x if you don't want past 2x). https://www.theverge.com/news/603581/youtube-premium-experimental-test-4x-speed-now-available https://www.theverge.com/news/603581/youtube-premium-experim...
  • K2L8M11N2 1y ago
    As a premium subscriber I currently have 4x available on Android and they recently (in the last month) added it to web too
    • zamadatix 1y ago
      As a premium subscriber I no longer have 4x available on iOS and I never had it on web. I also no longer see it as an experiment on https://www.youtube.com/new https://www.youtube.com/new I hope they make up their mind on it soon instead of this endless A/B testing.
  • zelphirkalt 1y ago
    Probably, because they are "A/B testing" things, that do not really show much effect or depend on more circumstances, than they care to eliminate and then overinterpret the results. Like almost all corporate A/B testing.
• ars 1y ago
  Install this: https://mybrowseraddon.com/video-speed-control.html https://mybrowseraddon.com/video-speed-control.html I listen to a lot of videos on 3 or even 4x.
• david_allison 1y ago
  I have up to 4x (in steps of 0.05) with YouTube Premium on Android
• zahlman 1y ago
  Meanwhile, I've found that just reading the transcript is often good enough.