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YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly
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They didn't oversize the recommended video thumbnails in the old UI. Either they couldn't figure out what to do with the whitespace resulting from stacking recommended videos horizontally so they just made em bigger. Or they just want persistent ads in your peripheral vision (the first recommended video will always be an ad for users not blocking them)