[fifteen1506]

I hate A/B testing. Puts the feedback and protest mechanism working on those who complain the most.

If you are a techie, you are forced to yell or silent quit the website, and most of the times I really don't have the time to waste yelling.

[bazmattaz]

My team rely on a/b testing. It’s the only way we can test whether the tweaks in our ML model produce positive results or not.

Playing devils advocate here I think it’s actually a good idea that YT are testing this. They need to understand how big of a negative impact this would be if released. If enough users hate this change as you and I suspect then hopefully YT see these results in their tests and revisit their approach.

A/b testing stops the worst user experiences from getting rolled out. Our company did a high profile a/b test that got a lot of negative feedback from users and the whole redesign it got canned because of it.

[fifteen1506]

I'd prefer Google to impose those changes on 100% of it users so it could generate outrage and incentivize people to jump ship, instead of enabling them to push it slowly and cooking everyone without them noticing.

[bazmattaz]

Welcome to capitalism my friend

[JohnFen]

> I hate A/B testing.

I agree. As a user, A/B testing is a horrible practice.