- 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.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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#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.
Better for advertisers looking to push non-sense to toddler-level users.
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#53I 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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#54Curious 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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#55Hopefully 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.
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#57So 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.
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#58> 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
> 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
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#60(basically, the SC is reviewing YouTube's Section 230 protections due to the use of recommendation engines)