Thanks, YouTube! - NOT!
Sep. 13th, 2020 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartYou've just made my life more complicated.
I've begun planning out Little Emma's (who's no longer a baby) quiet book that is done next summer, when she'll turn two. Where does one look for quiet book ideas? Bingo! On YouTube, of course. Where you can find literally hundreds of quiet books, tutorials, quiet book page tutorials, and so on. You pick the ones you like, save them to your playlist and can re-watch any time you need them. Right?
Wrong!
YouTube has just decided that they need to protect young children - which is okay. For that reason, however, they not only disabled comments to every frigging video that the owner labelled as "For children", it is now also impossible to save them to your playlists. The function is simply disabled.
I assume the goal is that sick fucks won't be able to save videos that actually feature kids, and I'm in absolute agreement with that. Unfortunately, many of those quiet books and tutorials are also labelled as "For kids", perhaps because quiet books are made for kids, as a rule, and now I have to save the links to my HD and pick out every video separately, without remembering what the heck that particular link was of. *sigh*
The other fantastic YouTube "reform" is that they no longer mail you alerts when a channel you're subscribed to is updated. This started what? Two weeks ago? At least they don't mail the alerts me! So I have to check each day on the YouTube site if, say, Angel has put up a new Spanish recipe or Sviatlana Balybina another quiet book. *grrrrr*
On a more positive note, I've finished Chapter 4 of "A Stitch of Time" and am very pleased with the outcome. Which means the readers probably won't, but I'm getting used to that. I've just realized that I forgot to post Chapters 2 and 3 to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
otherworlds_lib, so that's what I'll do tomorrow. That's the plan anyway.
Oh, and our choir conductor called me on the phone today. It was a really nice chat, even though the topics we discussed weren't exactly encouraging. Still, it's good to interact with friends, even if only through the phone.
My apologies for the relative lack of commenting lately. It seems I can only bring up the energy for one sort of thing at a time. I promise to better my ways.
I've begun planning out Little Emma's (who's no longer a baby) quiet book that is done next summer, when she'll turn two. Where does one look for quiet book ideas? Bingo! On YouTube, of course. Where you can find literally hundreds of quiet books, tutorials, quiet book page tutorials, and so on. You pick the ones you like, save them to your playlist and can re-watch any time you need them. Right?
Wrong!
YouTube has just decided that they need to protect young children - which is okay. For that reason, however, they not only disabled comments to every frigging video that the owner labelled as "For children", it is now also impossible to save them to your playlists. The function is simply disabled.
I assume the goal is that sick fucks won't be able to save videos that actually feature kids, and I'm in absolute agreement with that. Unfortunately, many of those quiet books and tutorials are also labelled as "For kids", perhaps because quiet books are made for kids, as a rule, and now I have to save the links to my HD and pick out every video separately, without remembering what the heck that particular link was of. *sigh*
The other fantastic YouTube "reform" is that they no longer mail you alerts when a channel you're subscribed to is updated. This started what? Two weeks ago? At least they don't mail the alerts me! So I have to check each day on the YouTube site if, say, Angel has put up a new Spanish recipe or Sviatlana Balybina another quiet book. *grrrrr*
On a more positive note, I've finished Chapter 4 of "A Stitch of Time" and am very pleased with the outcome. Which means the readers probably won't, but I'm getting used to that. I've just realized that I forgot to post Chapters 2 and 3 to
otherworlds_lib, so that's what I'll do tomorrow. That's the plan anyway.Oh, and our choir conductor called me on the phone today. It was a really nice chat, even though the topics we discussed weren't exactly encouraging. Still, it's good to interact with friends, even if only through the phone.
My apologies for the relative lack of commenting lately. It seems I can only bring up the energy for one sort of thing at a time. I promise to better my ways.
