I spoke/wrote too soon. The stupid confetti anim is back for the video thumbs up.
English is a difficult enough language to interpret correctly when its rules are followed, let alone when the speaker or writer chooses not to follow those rules.
"Jeopardy!" replies and randomcaps really suck!
Hey, you EU folks: there's some cookie laws which stipulate Alphabet/Google (owners of Blogger and Blogspot) needs to disclose some stuff to you, which, unfortunately might not show up if you have JavaScript disabled. It's not my fault they're that stupid, that they'd require JS to be on to display that notice, but whatever. You have been forewarned there may be some cookie monkey business going on which you might not like, and Google informs me it's my responsibility to tell you about that.
15 February, 2024
04 February, 2024
An Update to "Three MORE Reasons to Hate Alphabet/YouTube"
just a quick one today
Today, while looking square at a YouTube video thumbs up button and clicking it, it....holy cow...it didn't move. Its thumb didn't rotate towards pointing "northwest" like it had started doing many months ago. It didn't change colors, other than from background of black to white. No "confetti" spewed forth. Honestly, I don't know at this point whether it's one of my Stylus styles or if Alphabet has finally gotten the message that so many people think their former animation is an abomination on mankind. At any rate, I'm glad that appears to be gone.
I also noticed one other thing. Like virtually all other animations, I got sick and tired of their animated numbers, from the number of likes, to the number of views. So I wrote some Stylus CSS to hide them. Because my CSS is not too selective, this has the unfortunate effect of hiding them both. If I want to see them, I can always use Stylus' checkbox to turn all (Stylus added) styles off, or uncheck the specific one which hides these. And mind you, I see that these animations do not appear on every single viewing page; not sure what criteria are used to utilize the animated digits. Now I don't really need to do that. What I noticed is that hovering one's pointer (mouse) over those sections shows those figures in the title text.
Next, I might look into whether their two stupid subscription animations have been nixed too. YT is better without either. It's a stupid attempt at giving people a little dopamine hit when they click the button, or draw attention to the subscribe button itself (as if people don't already know where the subscribe button is or what it's for).
Now...if Alphabet would only get rid of the other animations they're doing on their other products, like the blooming background on Gmail buttons to indicate when they're sort-of ready for clicking, I'd be nearly ecstatic.
English is a difficult enough language to interpret correctly when its rules are followed, let alone when the speaker or writer chooses not to follow those rules.
"Jeopardy!" replies and randomcaps really suck!
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