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why are you not using ublock & sponsorblock? Ads are a choice you know?
Ads aren't a choice on mobile or SmartTV.
pihole.
Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
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Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#42It's really awful. The worst are those short vertical videos with a robot voice and dramatic music laid over a short clip from another video. It must be what a lobotomy feels like.
Tip for other people: Never ever click on such short (reel) when logged in. If you watch them, YouTube will push more down your throat. If you ignore them, they disappear from your suggestions.
Unless you decline tracking cookies or outright disable cookies, in which case YouTube will push even more crap content down your throat because I guess that's what the average person wants.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#43It feels kind of entitled to want free content that people can’t earn money from, for starters. I don’t understand why something can’t be passion driven or organic without also being money driven. Kind of reminds me of the music industry where people say a band sold out because they signed a deal with a label.
Anyway, the reason it’s harder to find good software tutorials is because software engineers can make a ton of money from anywhere in the world. This doesn’t even just affect YouTube. Try to go through the tech category on Audible without tripping over low-effort Python tutorials.
I don’t use TikTok atm but I bet you’ll find a similar problem there soon, if it’s not already prevalent.
The cause is humans trying to find the shortest path to money, not some YouTube algorithm.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#44The whole Internet hat peaked due to monetization. Very little content is created because somebody is passionate about something and wants to share. Almost all content is created to either directly make money or to collect enough followers to eventually start making money. Everything is fake and optimized to grab attention. What organic content remains is drowned out by the firehose of monetized content.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#45No, YouTube has not peaked, YouTube is only getting better. However, the only way to experience this is to DISCOVER CONTENT OUTSIDE OF YOUTUBE.
If you just click around YouTube you will get the content equivalent of Mountain Dew and Cheetos - unhealthy garbage that will make you worse off but will enrich the vendor. If you want to find the good stuff you have to know what you're looking for and seek it out.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#46Especially since the removal of downvoting it's hard to get to good quality material. Majority of tech videos are a case of blind leading the blind and unless you know the subject already it's hard to spot. Nowadays I start with a forum/reddit/discord/hn search for a list of hive approved creators and only then go to youtube with that list in hand. Starting the search in youtube (unless for a very niche/non-marketabl…
> Especially since the removal of downvoting
A wake-up call that a single company annihilated our ability to sort out information for ourselves. I'm still rather disturbed and shaken.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#47Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
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Yes? Heads add no value to a technical video, they function as a distraction at best.
> Heads add no value to a technical video Body language. Expression.
None of them is required for this, it just steals valuable time from the actual content.
For example when trying to find physical hardware reviews (basically the only reason I can think of where a video can be more preferable to something written). And yet it is incredible how many reviewers think you'll be happy to stare at their faces for the majority of the "review"; practically all this runtime is them advertising themselves.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#49Yes it has. It seems like the downturn was a few years ago when they made their monetization system pay less to the content creators and introduced a high barrier to entry for monetization (1k subscribers). Add in the algorithm preferring new content and channels that publish new videos frequently (weekly or more), making it essentially a full time job staying relevant. Youtube money is not enough to pay for living i…
Where are the content creators moving?
The ones I follow are mostly getting paid by Patreon subscriptions. Some are doing content for niche platforms specific to the hobby they dabble in. Some use YouTube for free previews of paid content available elsewhere.
But a lot of creators just quit.
There is no platform that is sucking creators out of youtube, there just isn't enough money from ad funded free content to keep it up.
Re: Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
why are you not using ublock & sponsorblock? Ads are a choice you know?
Ads aren't a choice on mobile or SmartTV.