I really hate youtube shorts. Can I completely turn them off? And whose idea was that??
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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#332I always saw her as one of the best candidates to become the Twitter CEO. She has the industry credence, and the experience of leading and making both google ads and YouTube successful (the two parts that Twitter needs help with). I wonder if Elon Musk would notice.
Would you really want Twitter run by Sergei Brin's sister-in-law?
Are you suggesting that she is less qualified because of her sister's past relationships?
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, it's really hard to get "lost" in YouTube nowadays
arguably, this is a good thing
In what way? Getting "lost" on youtube just meant following your interests until it strayed far away from the original video. Jumping video to video was fairly similar to "surfing" the web by jumping hyperlink to hyperlink.
Now it feels like Youtube controls the tide towards some fixed direction outside of the user control, which is frankly really boring. It's almost like the opposite of TickTock if comparing to other platforms.
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#334I'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.
The ads haven’t stayed gone, though.
I would pay a substantial premium for an option to filter promotions out of videos. I would even pay to just never get promoted videos in my steam.
The option to pay for no ads doesn’t exist, today, although it would be easy to ad. Instead, you get to pay to remove one advertiser, and not all the others.
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#335I wonder if demonetization practices caused youtube to bleed creators.
There was so much drama around youtubers and how youtube treated them.
I guess Youtube must always obey its advertisers.
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#336I really hate youtube shorts. Can I completely turn them off? And whose idea was that??
+1
I pay a premium subscription to not see ads, and I wish were able to disable shorts as well.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#337I'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.
The ads haven’t stayed gone, though. I would pay a substantial premium for an option to filter promotions out of videos. I would even pay to just never get promoted videos in my steam. The option to pay for no ads doesn’t exist, today, although it would be easy to ad. Instead, you get to pay to remove one advertiser, and not all the others.
What? I don't see any ads unless they're embedded in the video by the creator...?
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#338Maybe they can do something about the endless crypto scams about "elon musk projects" that use (really lousy) deep fakes and the same script across dozens of different advertising accounts.
Doubt they will though.
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#339Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ads haven’t stayed gone, though. I would pay a substantial premium for an option to filter promotions out of videos. I would even pay to just never get promoted videos in my steam. The option to pay for no ads doesn’t exist, today, although it would be easy to ad. Instead, you get to pay to remove one advertiser, and not all the others.
What? I don't see any ads unless they're embedded in the video by the creator...?
Those are still ads and there are solutions to filter them out that Youtube could be more proactive about surfacing to premium users.