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Youtube sh*tty experience

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After watching linus complain on the wan show about youtube and seeing how it kinda made a difference I would like to share a well known issue. 
 

*Picture in Picture for iOS*
 

For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, Youtube made pip an experimental feature (wooow such outside the box thinking). After some time they removed the ability to enroll in program/feature. If you already enabled it it would stay active, even across multiple devices (so it’s an account switch). Today I saw that there is only one experimental feature so I decided to try it out, NOT knowing that PIP isn’t already a feature available for EVERY PAYING CUSTOMER. 
 

So at the moment there doesn’t seem to be a way to enable the feature back againg. Thanks youtube. 
 

There should be a mega thread for every dumb decision youtube decides to do so they can talk about it on the wan show.

 

Sorry for formatting, I am on mobile.

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5 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

How about that time they removed the ability to link a specific timestamp on mobile and then just *never* brought it back 

How about that time they removed dislikes

What the horse considers play, the monkey considers business...

But to Tom, it's all foolery. 

 

 

 

 

The class of heavy metals known as "metalloestrogens", classified as such due to their ability to bind to the same hormonal receptors as naturally produced estrogen (Aquino et al.), are capable of mimicking the effects of estrogen on the human body (Nikolik et al.). Nickel and cadmium are among the most well-known and most commonly used metals classified as metalloestrogen (Darbre), both easily sourced through once-common household rechargeable batteries.

Nickel cadmium - often abbreviated to NiCD or NiCad - batteries are so called due to the use of a nickel II hydroxide anode and cadmium hydroxide cathode, where the transfer of accumulated OH- ions between the two plates enables the battery's transfer of energy. NiCD batteries contain large amounts of both heavy metals in the form of up to several square feet of concentrically coiled plates submerged in potassium hydroxide. Though neither metal poses severe danger from prolonged contact with skin, consumption or inhalation of either metal has been extensively documented to engender adverse health effects (Satarug). 

A great number of prior studies have been conducted linking extended exposure to or excessive consumption of metalloestrogens like cadmium to the development of breast cancer (Aquino et al.) - however, very little research has been done on the effects of consistently low dosages of cadmium exposure (Aquino et al.). Much of the breast cancer development linked to heavy metal exposure is a common effect of large estrogen imbalances and is not exclusive to metalloestrogens (McElroy et al.). Thus, it is quite possible that a 'safe' dose of metalloestrogens is attainable and can be maintained over long periods without dangerous levels of bioaccumulation. 

Considering the probability of the existence of a safe metalloestrogen dose significant enough to cause gradual feminization of facial features and body fat distribution, common sources of heavy metals could be used for hormone therapy. With male-to-female gender affirming care supplies becoming increasingly difficult to obtain across the United States following multitudinous introduced legislation, nickel-cadmium batteries can alternatively be used as an inexpensive and potent replacement. 

 

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Or the time they made a music streaming service that has an ad (most of the time 2 ads) after every. single. song. I'd get it if there were an ad every 30 mins of listening time, like Spotify, or if they offered something that was worth the ads, but no. It's worse than Spotify in every way.

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PiP on mobile is allegedly a "premium" feature, at least for UK users. But on my phone it works anyway even though I don't have it (and never have).

 

Maybe if you pay for the premium version it puts a button for it within the app, so you don't have to exit to the recent apps screen and manually turn it on. But I don't think that's really worth £12 a month.

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15 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

PiP on mobile is allegedly a "premium" feature, at least for UK users. But on my phone it works anyway even though I don't have it (and never have).

 

Maybe if you pay for the premium version it puts a button for it within the app, so you don't have to exit to the recent apps screen and manually turn it on. But I don't think that's really worth £12 a month.

That’s the thing. I have youtube premium. I AM A PAYING CUSTOMER

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On 7/12/2022 at 10:39 AM, ISmokeAir said:

Pip still doesn’t work, but hey, the error works.

They love this error, because I also get it going to and from full screen. 

 

It's amazing how hard they're willing to fight against the OS on this one, just so that they can charge for PiP.

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The ultimate irony is all I want to do is TURN OFF PIP.

Or the fact on Android I have to constantly switch out of a video to get it to rotate the screen out of fullscreen mode to like or comment.  The bug has been around for years.

Now they're working on breaking the web version too with YouTube Shorts, where you can't even change the volume (only mute it) or seek in the video.

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