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YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*(szmer.info)

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Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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With all the absurd turns YouTube and Google have taken, I’ve been looking at this for five minutes trying to figure out if this is a shitpost

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Madrigal@lemmy.world
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Nope, I’ve seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.

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kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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Cannot imagine a more useless feature.

Especially useless for us colorblind people…

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GameWarrior@discuss.online
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Unfortunately it is not…

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nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoOP
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It is not, there are actual colour categories at the top of the page which allow you to filter by thumbnails. This is what the Red page looks like for me:

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Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I don’t have the official app, so I choose to pretend this is a shitpost.

Haha A++ shitpost

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nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoOP
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In my defence I use Revanced and not Newpipe only because I like to have my subscriptions and watchlist synced up between devices

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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Does that come with app update? I still have normal categories up there:

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nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoOP
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I have 19.03.35 Revanced; may be a regional trial?

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fidodo@lemmy.world
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Google AB tests every tiny detail so you might not see it.

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jballs@sh.itjust.works
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I saw it yesterday and thought I had brain damage for a minute.

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OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world
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I’m really disappointed, was expecting all red videos to be those cringey red arrows pointing at irrelevant things.

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fidodo@lemmy.world
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You interacted with it, which means some ux designer somewhere is going to see the metrics and get encouraged

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