This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It's insane to change this once it's so ingrained in how people use the website.
It's also how content creators literally create chapters: put the time codes into the video description
That's a native feature of the platform
Oh shit, I didn't even think about that. What the hell.
Hopefully they'll realise it's a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase
You assume they give a fuck
Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they'll go back to the drawing board and try something else.
This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It's insane to change this once it's so ingrained in how people use the website.
It's also how content creators literally create chapters: put the time codes into the video description
That's a native feature of the platform
Oh shit, I didn't even think about that. What the hell.
Hopefully they'll realise it's a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase
You assume they give a fuck
Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they'll go back to the drawing board and try something else.