Please, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, allow us to disable this chapter skipping feature (the one where tapping left or right to bring up the scrubber, then double tapping the other direction because 100% of people want to skip that direction some unit time - 10 seconds by default). This ends up feeling random and is just vexing.

It is the worst feature added to any software, maybe ever in the history of computing. How many hours are wasted trying to figure out where one was in this video? How much power and network bandwidth is consumed fighting this feature that I’ve not seen a single comment online of anybody benefitting from ever.

This feature is adding to human suffering by wasting energy and damaging people psychologically. Go please, look online, and consider castigating the creator of this feature in the public square. And then take a good hard look at yourself for not stopping this evil from ever being added in the first place.

Yours aye, Sane People

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    11 months ago

    If you’re on Android, and you don’t want to be beholden to YouTube’s random promotion driven UI changes, I recommend new pipe.

    https://newpipe.net/

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      11 months ago

      Libretube also runs on Piped but has a really good UI rather than a, to be honest, pretty terrible one

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        11 months ago

        Curious, what do you find bad about new pipe?

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          11 months ago

          The UI is incredibly ugly. NewPipe works, but I could not live with using that UI.

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            11 months ago

            What about the UI is ugly? Is it the red color?

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              11 months ago

              I can’t really quantify what makes ui ugly, perhaps some of it is Newpipe’s color scheme. However, if I open Newpipe and then the Material You & M3 Libretube app the Libretube app is night & day better

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          11 months ago

          Sorry for the split commenr, I should also mention that Libretube offers sign in with Piped for subscription syncing.