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

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Post by martythemaniak »

Larrikin wrote: post #32

At some point during Covid they seemed to just decide they wanted to abuse users and its been a steady decline since. My largest use cases were watching DJ sets, music videos, stand up comedians, instructional videos, and life of (random career) videos Music videos have multiple ads before and after now. The music videos are still watchable but it sucks to put youtube on at a party now. Life of videos from channels w…

This isn't a problem, people have to pay their bills somehow. You can either watch ads or pay for Premium and not watch ads.

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Asdrubalini wrote: post #98

It has been one year since I can't find interesting stuff in the recommended section anymore. I also thought about building my own recommendation system using YouTube's RSS feed for each individual channel, Telegram for notifications and some simple logic written in Rust and SQLite (of course) and always running on my VPS, where I manually add and remove the channels I like and I also give them a score to have a prio…

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Post by fayalargeau »

bergenty wrote: post #12

I disagree, the recommendation engine seems to be finding a lot of niches that I’m very interested in.

ikr? just because a few got bored doesn't mean it's what everyone else if feeling. if anything, i'm addicted more than ever and i hate it. my productivity has exponentially gotten worse in the last 10 years of using youtube.

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Post by rr888 »

AraceliHarker wrote: post #9

YouTubers have become more professional and post a large number of videos optimized for monetization (trendy videos, videos around 10 minutes long with additional ads inserted in the video, etc.). In addition, in order to maximize advertising revenue, YouTube tends to place more importance on new click-bait videos that have a rapid increase in views, rather than high quality videos that can be viewed over a long peri…

> YouTube tends to place more importance on new click-bait videos that have a rapid increase in views

This sounds like TikTok, and likely trying to compete with them.

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Post by birdyrooster »

dageshi wrote: post #7

Their search has got pretty bad I've noticed. They've changed it to start showing random shit you might want to watch instead of the thing you actually searched for after the first 10 or so videos. They seem to repeat videos they think you ought to watch quite often in search results as well. Significant downgrade on what it used to be.

Try yewtu.be it’s like definitely better search on invidious.

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Post by jhoechtl »

hattmall wrote: post #33
ralusek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed this with Google, too. Particularly when searching for things in the past, it's like they adamantly don't want 3+ months ago to exist. I now have to archive news articles and the like because I know that I'm going to have an extremely hard time finding them later.

If search works too good you are gone too quickly. Amazon figured this out A LOOOONG time ago. If Google makes you rephrase your search 10 times that 10x ads they can show you. If they take those opportunities to also drive you to crap sites that waste time but are heavily monetized by Google ads then that's even more for them. It's no different than grocery stores putting the most commonly purchased items all the wa…

You nailed it. Couldn't phrase it any better.
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