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by Retric 801 days ago
Filling the screen with two buttons labeled Yes and No is in effect almost all whitespace even if the entire page is clickable.

Consider the modern version of YouTube in terms of separate clickable elements rather than the space between images / giant buttons and it’s mostly whitespace. So from that perspective modern YouTube has 4x the whitespace as the 2006 page even if it’s not as obvious.

This directly shows up in how few buttons you see from left to right when there are buttons and the amount of dead space around the up and downvotes etc.