After recently watching this video on “dark” design patterns, I thought I’d describe the experience of embedding YouTube playlists on Minds.com.  Notice that this playlist below works as it should:

One video rolls into another on the Nature Walks playlist. Not so when I try and embed this playlist to my Wootcrisp page on Minds.com:

What does it mean? Unless it’s an innocent programming issue, Minds and/or YouTube is doing this to incentivize their video platform. A cursory Google search turned up no obvious way to detect which of them was the problem, but testing the playlist here shows that it is at least possible. 

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• Also, at the time of writing this, YouTube will only display 200 videos under a user’s upload playlist before requiring that you click the 200th video, and only 100 on any given playlist: