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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.
Same here, it's really hard to get "lost" in YouTube nowadays
What most annoying is yt now showing vids that are already watched just a day afoy. Including shorts. They can't even do a proper sorting now
Another probable issue is the upcoming Supreme Court decision about Section 230 protections. Maybe Wojcicki sees that writing on the wall.
YouTube has become such an unfree, restricted platform in recent years. Hopefully that changes, although I doubt it.
Right now YouTube has a big scammer problem. People impersonate channel owners and reply to comments on their videos with phishing links. Several creators I follow are now putting a warning at the beginning of their videos to help educate people, but it seems like this is something YouTube could and should fix. Another probable issue is the upcoming Supreme Court decision about Section 230 protections. Maybe Wojcicki…
Speculation: I wonder if any of this relates to the Supreme Court Gonzalez v. Google case? (basically, the SC is reviewing YouTube's Section 230 protections due to the use of recommendation engines)
Right now YouTube has a big scammer problem. People impersonate channel owners and reply to comments on their videos with phishing links. Several creators I follow are now putting a warning at the beginning of their videos to help educate people, but it seems like this is something YouTube could and should fix. Another probable issue is the upcoming Supreme Court decision about Section 230 protections. Maybe Wojcicki…
Not only this, YouTube literally allows scammers to run ads and you can't report it. I saw an ad with Mr. Beast pop up offering $1,000 to the first X people to click on it. I clicked, because it sounds like something he would do and I was curious and figured YouTube wouldn't let a scammer advertise. Once I landed on the page it was immediately clear from the domain that it was a scam, but the page looked legit. It's astounding that YouTube is alright with openly running scammers ads for them.
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)
Downvotes are hidden now. I'm not sure they actually have enough information to determine video quality anymore. Its all about gaming the algorithm's "engagement" metrics. No one cares if you enjoyed yourself any longer.
They probably want to show viewers, but you can’t reveal the stats to only one group.
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.
Dear Youtube: Please please please have an option to filter out "shorts" on the web version. None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.