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doodledup ,

Why is this even news? The intern can implement that feature in like 5 minutes.

ExtremeDullard ,
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It’s not technical news, It’s newsworthy because of the context.

Kind of like when people in the Soviet Union were allowed to grow vegetables in their own tiny plot of land for personal consumption: it was important because the Soviet Union denied people private ownership, but simply because everybody in the USSR was on the verge of dying of starvation any minute, the Soviets carved out a teeny tiny exception to the rule.

Everybody in the free world was completely nonplussed by the ability to grow your own veggies. But it made the news because it was the Soviet Union.

In this case, the stifling Google mothership implemented a teeny tiny something trivial on their platform, and it’s newsworthy because Google is the Soviet Union of the internet in more ways than one.

Of course, people with any sense of freedom and sanity consume Youtube videos with FreeTube, FreeTube, Grayjay, NewPipe, LibreTube, Piped, Invidious or whatever else and looks at this thinking “So…?” But it’s newsworthy because it comes out of Google.

ExtremeDullard ,
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I didn’t know anybody still used the official Youtube client. Or cared about it.

30p87 ,

That already works in LibreTube, since at least a year, for free of course.

TheJack ,

Though I use Tubular (NewPipe fork) and don’t need a timer but, always sleeps faster listening weather report of a remote country.

algorithmae ,

There’s an Android app called “SleepTimer” that works with basically any app

AlexWIWA ,

I’ve been asking for this for literally ten years

MimicJar ,

So wait they implement autoplay, autoplay then ruins recommendations, and the fix is a sleep timer?

I’ve never needed this feature, but surely the sleep timer should be an OS feature? I assume Android and iOS have apps for this.

But also it it screws with recommendations, maybe improve that UI first?

This feels like a “faster horses” situation where they have no idea what to do next.

AlexWIWA ,

You can make a sleep timer using shortcuts in iOS

Annoyed_Crabby ,

It’s for people who somehow forgot to turn off autoplay feature

sepiroth154 ,

Its only because they’re bleeding money with sleeping views right now…

bbigras ,

Fuck you Google. I buy your premium pro phones and watches (that you barely improve) and you want me to pay for basic features like PiP or the sleep timer?

Don’t be surprised that I use smartube, pipepipe, newpipe and others instead.

pseudonym ,

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