YouTube brings Ambient Mode colors to fullscreen video
YouTube brings Ambient Mode colors to fullscreen video
YouTube is currently rolling out Ambient Mode to fullscreen videos on its Android and iOS apps, but you can turn it off.
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Lol. Better headline: "Youtube tries any random crap it can think to stop people using Newpipe"
I thought this was a bug in Youtube. It's intrusive and annoying.
Do other video apps do this? Why?
It's weird how I didn't really care about the pinhole camera or my Pixel 5 weird dimensions until Ambient Mode started highlighting it. When ambient mode shipped (silently), I seriously thought I forgot that the aspect ratio wasn't 16:9 and the pinhole was so visible all these years. Turns out the bars hid these distractions.
The feature looks great on Desktop, but on mobile, I kinda prefer the bars actually hiding the edges of the screen, esp in fullscreen mode in a darker room.
It's cool that you can just turn it off, and hopefully, in the future, they let you toggle the feature in fullscreen and portrait mode separately.