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by zamadatix 354 days ago
YouTube ran an experiment with up to 4x playback on mobile (???) but it went away in February. I get a lot of the experiments they do being experiments but why just allowing the slider to go farther is such a back and forth hoopla is beyond me. It's one of the oft touted features of 3rd party apps and extensions with nearly 0 UI impact to those who don't want to use it (just don't slide the slider past 2x if you don't want past 2x).

https://www.theverge.com/news/603581/youtube-premium-experim...
2 comments
K2L8M11N2 354 days ago
As a premium subscriber I currently have 4x available on Android and they recently (in the last month) added it to web too
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zamadatix 353 days ago
As a premium subscriber I no longer have 4x available on iOS and I never had it on web. I also no longer see it as an experiment on https://www.youtube.com/new

I hope they make up their mind on it soon instead of this endless A/B testing.

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zelphirkalt 353 days ago
Probably, because they are "A/B testing" things, that do not really show much effect or depend on more circumstances, than they care to eliminate and then overinterpret the results. Like almost all corporate A/B testing.
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