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The YouTube app for Android. It's become my hobby to observe how it gradually becomes worse and worse. But not with dark patterns but just plain bad handling.

• all icons became bigger over time, having to scroll more if you have multiple playlists
• sorting has recently become almost impossible, you have to hit that perfect one pixel wide spot to rearrange videos
• the search, oh my... 3 results, 5 unrelated videos, twenty shorts, 5 suggestions, 3 more results, repeat
• only shows couple of playlists, have to click on "show all"
• playlists are sorted alphabetically, or by last addition, varies from update to update. Muscle memory is useless
• all the above varies from device to other device to browser to PC, there's no consistency
• and so much more

If I want to use YouTube seriously I'm using Firefox and ublock, but I reached a point where I'm looking forward to every app update to enjoy the "improvements" they made for a "better user experience".

Where you own nothing as well. People have become comfortable with that thought since Steam launched, today they love it.

Ubisoft just said it out loud. Fuck them all!