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I was big time addicted to youtube for a while starting around 2010, mostly bc the recommended videos were so good and content that was uploaded was more raw and silly then now. But at some point the recommendations got really bad, so much so that it made it a lot less enjoyable. I miss those days.
None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.
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Agreed. I am a massive fan of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. While I am a bit nervous because major change like this could lead to those products getting worse, I'm also hopeful that it could lead to them getting better! So in general I'm just eager to see what happens next, come what may.
can you sell it to a current spotify user?
Not a spotify fan either, but there's practically no upside to switching.
I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.
I subscribed to YT premium when it was bundled with YT music. I hate that there is not a plan in the US that allows me to just get ad free YT videos. I do not use YT music and don't care to. I hope whoever takes it over creates an ad free plan that doesn't bundle music into it. I hate that all of these tech companies are taking the cable route they all rallied agains and bundling everything.
YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…
What do you like about it? Ever since they made comments a signal for discovery and openly communicated that, every creator and their dog will include call to actions to get viewers to comment some mindless nonsense, and users will happily oblige ("for the algorithm"). At least half the comments I see are completely useless.
Then there's the censorship issue where they hide comments but do not adjust the count, so it'll say "2 replies", but none will show up because they're hidden.
And last but not least ... it's has no useful nesting, just top comment and then everything else below it. With large audiences come hundreds or thousands of comments. Yet there's no structure. And you can't search in comments.
So I'm really surprised that you think they've been improved much and are on a good level. What exactly do you like about them?
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yea I'm a daily users of YT. Pay for premium. Don't produce. Only consume. Probably their ideal customer and I think the app is great. No idea what people are bitching about.
The main criticism I see with YouTube is that it has too many ads, and the idea of paying for youtube is laughable. Basically, it's users are very entitled. Edit: I have had premium since day 1, I'm speaking about others.
That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)
Why does everything have to keep innovating? Youtube was fine years ago. People make stuff, I subscribe and watch it. Sure throw in some algorithmic discovery on the side. Bring back dislike count. Other than that I don't care for any innovation. Just keep the lights on.
Not to mention "sort by oldest first".
She quite literally got this far because of family. Geez I wonder why Youtube remains one of the most underperforming media assets. Edit: SV is full of nepotism.