You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.

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Nextgrid 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.

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chrneu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's an old adage that if you follow the tech that porn adopts, you'll generally be ahead the average consumer curve.

I think there's another version that if porn adopts a tech that means that the tech will work. Like, a lot of VR adoption early on was porn. By a lot, I mean most.

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komali2 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google "Ethical Capital Partners."

Operates:

Pornhub

RedTube

YouPorn

Brazzers

Digital Playground Men.com

Reality Kings

SpankWire

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chrneu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Very US centric take here. Ya know there are other countries, languages, etc out there, right?

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komali2 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All of the websites I listed are in Mandarin for me and have content catered towards local fetishes. I have no idea what you're talking about.

	▲	taftster 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I saw "Mandarin" and "local fetishes" and thinking I'm glad I have no idea what you're talking about, too!

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theideaofcoffee 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure what this comment is getting at. Those may be the collection of sites owned by a single company, but there are still -oceans- of porn of every conceivable niche, on hundreds of thousands of sites, some still bigger than those. Whereas there’s pretty much a single, monopolized provider for mainstream video: youtube. And a porn conglomerate is the problem? GP is still correct, there’s still real competition in the space, unlike youtube.

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throwaway984393 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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makeitdouble 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. 1080p screen density is still so popular. Looking around new laptops it's still the bulk in Windows land, including OLED and ultra high refresh rate monitors. Same for TVs.

Even on macs many are using scaling factors that render close to 1080p.

The issue really would be why YouTube can't bother managing more layouts. It still blows my mind there's only one single YouTube experience per platform, when their viewership basically span the world's population.

	▲	gessha 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because they fired a bunch of engineers, fired/reorged the PMs and whoever is left is working on the AI shlop.

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1bpp 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They just need to fix search..