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Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by 88 »

orangepurple wrote: post #17

Lots of interesting YouTubers have been demonetized for dubious reasons and have simply stopped using the platform. This has been and always will be the problem with having a "Youtube career". You are completely at the behest of a monolith company run by automated bots that can demonetize you on a robotic whim.

Successful YouTubers get a good chunk of their income from brand deals.

Doesn’t matter if your video gets monetized if a company has loaned/gifted you a product and paid you to make a video featuring it.

Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by deepdriver »

RL_Quine wrote: post #60
deepdriver wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I subscribe to YouTube Premium to skip all interstitial ads. It’s absolutely worth it to me. I like to think I’m helping someone at G make the business case for subscription-based, ad-free products and services. Sponsor segments are easily skippable with a few fast-forward fingertaps, or right-arrow taps on a keyboard.

Why manually scrub through videos when there's a tool to do it automatically for you and re-cut the video into a seamless block of content?

Every browser plug-in is an additional exploit vector. Never know when the plug-in author might sell out or get hacked. When that happens you’re one auto-update away from catastrophe. I also enjoy the more creative sponsor segments, like Internet Historian’s.

Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by shapefrog »

gherkinnn wrote: post #19

YT on a clean slate is horrendous. Give it a few days and it becomes bearable. I’m mostly impressed. Though there is a growing number of anecdotes surrounding (niche|not palatable to SV) channels who’s subscribers don’t get notified despite the bell thing being on, new videos no longer in feeds, and even people getting unsubscribed for no apparent reason. This is a problem, as I’d sooner give up peanut butter than on…

> YT on a clean slate is horrendous

It makes me worry about the future of humanity, as the clean slate is what is popular in your location.

> open mouthed dweebs on a rainbow background for thumbnails

Dont forget to add a large amount of money to the title my $$$$250,000 computer.

But it f'ing works - I am really not sure what is wrong with people. Oh and now I get 2 ads every single video, its barely worth it ...

Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by majewsky »

coopierez wrote: post #51
avian wrote: post #25

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Bad search that tries hard not to actually show you search results is another one of those dark trends I see everywhere. Have you seen Twitter search lately? The search tab in the app doesn't even have a text field visible by default. It's all just unrelated popular garbage. You have to swipe down to reveal the text field where you can enter your search term. Then you get more unrelated garbage in the "top" result ta…

Search on the iOS app store is awful too. You type in the exact name of the app you are looking for and have to scroll through 10-15 vaguely related results before you get to the one you actually want.

I usually get the result I want in the second slot. The first slot is always wrong because it's always an ad.

Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by user_named »

lrem wrote: post #49
lloydatkinson wrote: post #39

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I can refresh the home page a hundred times in a row and the exact same videos in the exact same order get displayed. It never used to be like this. I have no idea what the hell is going on at YouTube head office.

I work in a different part of Google... But getting the same result when refreshing page sounds like getting served from a cache, which doesn't sound that weird. Isn't there a button to show something else?

I get recommended the same videos for months. Sometimes they even show old recommendations from a year back.

I'm thinking recommendations can be significantly increased by using a ruby gem because what they have now, certainly more complicated and convoluted, isn't working at all.

Re: Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

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Post by RL_Quine »

deepdriver wrote: post #63
RL_Quine wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why manually scrub through videos when there's a tool to do it automatically for you and re-cut the video into a seamless block of content?

Every browser plug-in is an additional exploit vector. Never know when the plug-in author might sell out or get hacked. When that happens you’re one auto-update away from catastrophe. I also enjoy the more creative sponsor segments, like Internet Historian’s.

If this is a concern it is supported in yt-dlp and mpv.
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