Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled(jayd.ml)

798 points by jaydenmilne 11 months ago | 522 comments

Blog follow-up claiming a joke prediction that YouTube's home page would shrink to showing very few videos has come true, with a chart of declining video counts.

YouTube views are down (don't panic)(jeffgeerling.com)

84 points by nfriedly 1 year ago | 67 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video](youtube.com)

62 points by zdw 2 days ago | 14 comments

YouTube video by Wave Design showing footage from Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2026 edited into a '90s-style TV reel using SGI workstations and period video hardware.

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video](youtube.com)

562 points by kegenaar 1 month ago | 155 comments

YouTube video from IKEA Ireland promoting KALLAX Storageborn, a free creation (mod) for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

The Death of the Web (2024)(garry.net)

43 points by mark_mcnally_je 1 year ago | 31 comments

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs(old.reddit.com)

348 points by jjbinx007 1 year ago | 318 comments

A Reddit r/DataHoarder thread about YouTube removing videos that show how to perform nonstandard Windows 11 installs; the page was blocked by Reddit's network policy.

YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban(torrentfreak.com)

380 points by marban 3 years ago | 190 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that hosting provider Uberspace took down the youtube-dl website after a German court ruling in a copyright lawsuit by major record labels.

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled(jayd.ml)

798 points by jaydenmilne 11 months ago | 522 comments

Blog follow-up claiming a joke prediction that YouTube's home page would shrink to showing very few videos has come true, with a chart of declining video counts.

YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable(frontendmasters.com)

333 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 207 comments

Frontend Masters blog post explaining that YouTube iframe embeds weigh about 1.3MB and how the lite-youtube web component cuts that to roughly 100KB.