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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#51

- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.

In the early days, YouTube had a 5 star rating system which I think is better than a binary like/dislike. You also could customize your channel more including custom backgrounds.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#52

- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.

Worse for power users seeking specific things.

Better for advertisers looking to push non-sense to toddler-level users.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#53

I believe it is related to this movement to subpoena big tech about “collusion with government” https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/jim-jordan-subpoenas-alphabe... Either she is being blamed, or she is deeply guilty and wants to try to avoid the publicity, or they anticipate this will become extremely ugly. Or sundar is blaming her for lining him up for a firing squad. Or she is a liability due to her past work. Regardle…

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#54

Curious why this is important enough to be on the front page. Even as a techie I don't find this news interesting, at least not HN front-page worthy. (Instead of down voting it would be nice to hear what others think as valid reasons). How does this affect our day-day lives?

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#55

Hopefully this brings back the dislike button. Intellectually I know a change of CEO shouldn't/wouldn't impact a feature like this, but I am still annoyed at its absence and find it makes YouTube substantially less useful. Edit: I understand the dislike button is still there, I misspoke. But for my purposes of seeing like/dislike ratio, it might as well not be there.

There is a chrome plugin that brings the dislikes back.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#57

So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.

She didn’t “make” anything. Your average employee working at YouTube did.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

#58
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> Wojcicki, who joined Alphabet nearly 25 years ago… I’m not a journalist, but that doesn’t sound right.

? Google's first office was in her parents' garage

No, her garage.

> With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki

https://about.google/intl/en_us/our-story/

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