Comment by alpaca128
7 months ago
On the topic of A/B testing, it would be really neat if there was a way to opt out of it.
I cannot remember a single time in the last 5+ years when the website wasn't broken in some way. Right now the UI has at least 5 separate bugs and a Premium feature of the iPad app has 5 distinct bugs which are also so obvious that it's clear YT doesn't even test their paid version at all.
YouTube is the best argument against opt-out (or forced) telemetry in apps.
complain as you might about reddit but only it and cnn (to my knowledge) allow the kind of "old." url-based opt-outs
If you're referring to old.reddit.com or whatever it is, sure, but I can't imagine that users of that site aren't part of a/b tests all the time anyway even though what you see is the old stylesheet.
that's likely true, it's just a different branch, LTS, if you will
They've recently started infecting old reddit with some of the new crap like notifications for every little thing. You can still disable them for now, tediously one by one.