• on the mobile app, comments have links to search for fairly random words within them in YouTube search for no discernable reason
• the comment box on mobile shows a preview of a comment, but when clicking on the preview it just goes to the top of the comments and the comment you clicked on is now lost
• YouTube search works terribly and is less than 1/3 actual results
• searching by upload date only shows around a dozen new videos before it completely stops working
• searching watch history for terms in video titles almost never works, even if there are lots of videos with said title
• ambient mode distracts from the video itself and looks pretty bad on Firefox
• the tracking code when sharing links
• how some videos have different caption formatting and there is no central way to turn it off for good
• YouTube thumbnails are big now
• YouTube recommending me a hundred videos on a topic I'm not interested in after I watch two or three videos on said topic
• hover autoplay on video thumbnails
• AI summaries in video descriptions, and AI integrations in YouTube Studio
• The transcript button is now in the description for some reason
• YouTube pushing mobile games in their homepage
• Shorts
• silently adding forced midroll ads
• the slight gradient in the progress bar
• there is no way to search a channel's videos on the mobile app
• There is no way to turn on All subscription notifications in the mobile app without granting the app notification permissions
• no more playlists in the sidebar
• random community posts on the mobile homepage
• live chat button takes up half the horizontal space of the description for some reason

Feel free to share your own.

These guys don't understand that the speed of reading is dictated by THEM; if it takes you only 5 seconds to get through the 20 pages of the chapter, calm down, dude. Nobody is chasing you.

Besides, a manga/comic is not like a movie/series where the pace of "playback" is constant regardless of whether there is dialogue or not in the scene. A scene in a movie is going to last, say, 5 minutes with or without the dialogues, if it's action or contemplative. In a comic book it's obviously going to take longer to read a page with dialogue than one without. Worse still if it's a two-page general shot with no dialogue, if you don't go into every detail of the scene, you'll see it for half a second and move on.

If you feel dissatisfied with how fast you read a comic book.... Boy, it's your fault.

The longer you are on lemmy, the more you can step back and see the ebb and flow of manipulative posts in and out of circulation to create rifts between people and create short-lived topics of ‘conversation’ to busy the people here. The general anti-capitalism direction is pandered to singing the tune people think they want to hear and is no different I’m sure to the many bot posts aimed at facebook users to play the tune they also want to hear to manipulate, and get them to come back.

I’m sure facebook, twitter, and the other shitty social sites are far worse but for over a decade, a deep level of warfare has been fought online via manipulation and disinformation and young people are far too easily manipulated by a post because well, obviously a real person wrote it, right? Right? There’s even a picture of their face and everything!

So, I’d like to ask lemmy users to be particularly on guard, both here and any other site they visit with ‘user’ postings on in the future, and to perhaps step back, stop visiting sites, posts, forums, etc outside of your hobbies, and ignore it all. That’s the only way to be immune to the noise and to lead a better life. Whatever that direction is for you. Also, help your friends ignore the noise and help them focus on visiting information about just their hobbies.

Early internet was just information about hobbies and for the betterment of people and furthering knowledge. Let’s take that back.

In case you couldn’t see the actual unsubscribe button, here is the same screenshot with the brightness cranked all the way up to make the text visible.

This is an email from Mass Appeal Records, a record label I apparently subscribed to.

I watched some of Apple's recent shows using...different methods than the official app and I believe they're making some of the best content out there, currently. Shows like Severance and For All Mankind are masterpieces and they give me the SciFi fix I desperately needed.

So I've decided to bite the bullet and get a subscription - after all, you should support the creators you're really invested in, right?

Watching content on their platform is so painful - it's one of the worst experiences I ever had. If you want to watch the shows in a browser, you need to use Microsoft Edge on Windows because that's the only browser which comes with Playwright DRM - and it only works if you have a HDCP 2.2-capable screen. If you don't have that, the content gets served in 480p with a low bitrate. Might as well just put in a VHS at this point.

There's another alternative: The official Windows 11 app you can get from the store. It is indeed capable of serving you UHD streams...if it wants to. All episodes that are age-rated to 16+ currently don't work, because they forgot to implement an age verification mechanism and pressing play doesn't do anything at all. According to their forums, that even seems to happen on MacOS in some cases, so they really messed up the most important thing of their own streaming platform: Pressing Play to watch an episode.

Even if you're lucky and you're watching a show that isn't age-restricted, they serve the content in the language your Apple account has been set to when you've created it by default. So every time you open an episode, you have to start it and switch the audio to English. If you go to your account settings to change the language it tells you that your subscription needs to end before you can do that. So you have to wait four weeks or a whole year to change the default language, depending on the subscription model.

Adding to that, sometimes the video streams just freeze, the audio doesn't play at all or the app straightup crashes in the middle of a stream.

I have rarely seen a platform messing up the user experience this badly. It's as if Apple doesn't even want you to watch their own content. I've decided to not renew my subscription and procure the episodes from other sources. I wanted to give you money, Apple. But you fucked up.

In password security, the longer the better. With a password manager, using more than 24 characters is simple. Unless, of course, the secure password is not accepted due to its length. (In this case, through STOVE.)

Possibly indicating cleartext storage of a limited field (which is an absolute no-go), or suboptimal or lacking security practices.

To clarify the difference between home and main screens: home screen is the folded shut front screen, and main screen is the unfolded open inside wide screen.

So before the most recent Android update was installed, I could select from a list of options for the number of columns and rows that you could place your app icons in. Depending on the selection, it would adjust the size of the app icon accordingly. So, for example, 4x4 would hold larger sized app icons than 6x5. The infuriating part has to do with the fact the home screen is like 2"-3"x4"-6" while the main screen is 4"-6"x4"-6" or double the size of the cover screen. Before the update i could independently set the cover screen to grid size AxA, and then independently set the main screen to grid BxB. The screenshot is just where they used to be located. Iver searched thru all branches of the settings menu tree and found nothing. Fuck I hate when updates remove settings options or a user's freedom to customize shit. The worst part is I dont think I can roll back updates on android either🤬🤬🤬

I read this is a new "feature" they've been testing for at least 2 years now on some users unfortunately my time has come, So you might not seeing this but you will in the future

The green sign reads "Please don't leave empty boxes here. Bring them to the bin outside"

You highlight something in Edge and release your finger from the button? New menu. Now you can copy it directly! Great! No need for right clicking every time, right? No! It only works in Edge! You want to copy from Outlook? Nothing! You highlight in Word or Excel? You can change the font of the selected text! No copy option!

You expect it to work a certain way and then it just doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I love right clicking, but expecting not having to and then still needing to click it is just… inconsistently inconvenient

Unlike in virtually all other areas of the country, private listings are barred by the NWMLS.

New York-based Compass has taken aim at the local prohibition, sparking a federal lawsuit and plenty of industry controversy. This spring, Seattle-area Compass agents listed a handful of private exclusive properties before the NWMLS cut off the company’s access to its data feed in April, essentially forcing Compass to relent.

Even as Compass has halted private exclusive listings here because of local rules, a small share of Seattle-area properties are already sold without full transparency. Some homeowners want to sell to a neighbor or family member without broad advertising. Wealthy people, celebrities and homeowners with security concerns sometimes sell their properties off-market. Agents working with privacy-conscious sellers may skirt the NWMLS rules or submit listings and get permission to not have the property displayed broadly.

OP Note: I don't think this is just about listing days on the market. This is probably more about racism, since you have to sign in to see anything and I'm sure they pay for data brokers.

They never asked me to make security questions. I set my password the first time and completed some required forms. Then, these buffoons reset my password again (2nd) and made me change it to something else (3rd). The thing is, when I changed my password the site gave me a non-descript error banner and redirected me to the login. Now neither the 1st password, 2nd password, or 3rd password works. To top it off I can't even reset the password. I think the site is having an aneurysm.

When toilets try to save money by reducing the amount of water they use per flush, but you end up having to flush like 3 times 🤬

It's bad enough they make 'features' I don't want enabled by default, but it's even worse when the lazy/incompetent developers can't even give me the option to change it.

I skim and skip through the trailer to see what the game and gameplay look like, and all I see are screens of text with random text or quotes that tell me nothing about the actual game and gameplay.

I've started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.

There are no other options. This is even more stupid than the phone number verification thing. Attemping to logging to Google Play Store on that wiped device (which previously was logged in to the account) doesn't work either.

Luckily, this is a throwaway account, not much data of value was lost. FRP on the wiped device was also off.

But like, what is the point of this. Suppose, my phone got stolen. How am I supposed to log in to Google to initiate a remote wipe, if it ask for a verification code which is on the phone that the thief has?

Zero logic at all. 🤦‍♂️

Edit: And MFA was never enabled. Just to clarify.

I needed to vent about this somewhere, thanks

Every single time I use Spotify, after the first advert it says to enjoy the next 30 minutes ad free. Then after a 2 minute long song, I get 5 minutes of adverts 😑. Every single time

Edit: using mutify now, thank you everyone!

Yeah, I know doordash isn’t a smart move but I fucked up my ankle and this will last me a few days.

I am almost 100% sure that before I clicked on Wingstop and added things to my cart that delivery fees were listed on the page, and that Wingstop was listed as having no fee.

However, once I got to check out I noticed the fee. When I returned to the home page, all of the delivery prices were hidden.

This is such a shitty and shady company.