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Hopefully, the "stop showing me this ad" feature gets fixed. I'm tired of always being presented with an ad for the "Dixie Store". No, I don't want to shop for Confederate flags and other garbage.
Why not use an ad blocker? There's no incentive for them to fix it.
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10 minute minimum length for monetization killed short good content. There's still good content, but it doesnt respect your time.
Now they're pushing shorts, which are (in my opinion) too short to convey all the relevant info. Not sure how monetization works with shorts, since I use an adblock, but 50%+ of my subscription feed is shorts on some days and it suck (for me personally)
www.youtube.com##.ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope
there's probably more filters to block shorts in other places like the suggestions sidebar if you look for them, but i have the sidebar disabled completely so the above filter was enough for me
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Youtube Vanced does a good job at blocking most ads, and the latest version has a feature that attempts to skip sponsored sections on videos. Well worth trying out.
I think it's important where possible for people to pay for the premium version, while it provides ad free value for money, though I don't begrudge people blocking ads in other ways if they truly can't afford it. But I think it's short sighted and selfish to not pay for something like YouTube that you use and get value out of every day, when you can afford it. Either pay for it and support it or don't use it at all.
People love Youtube because Youtube had the financial resources to store more video than any other service, and people love videos.
Youtube itself is a shitshow, famous for hosting the largest collection of low-quality comments on the planet – and Wojcicki has been okay with that. A better calibre of human being would have fixed Youtube – or resigned trying – years ago (eg: 2015, when Youtube became world's largest and most effective extremist recruitment service).
Wojcicki's best asset was perhaps an ability to keep her name out of the tech news cycle, and that's probably because 'Wojcicki' is difficult to spell more than any personal talent.
Youtube is great inasmuch as videos are great, but almost any other tech company would have been a better steward of humanity's video archive.
So my view is: Fantastic! I will not miss her – in fact I'll ride a wave of endorphins from this news all week.
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.
For goodness's sake, I just want to view contents from my subscription, not taste changer.
but i also empathize with someone trying to break even from a very expensive-to-run platform.
YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…
I follow some stand up comics in India. In one glance you can make out that most of the top comments are fake.
That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened. I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
I think twitter killing vine was the real moment that brought us tik tok. It was like the digg exodus to reddit but way bigger. Everyone thought twitter was dumb for cancelling one of the most popular social networks out there for no good reason, and what do you know, the market proved this was dumb when tencent came in with their vine clone and became bigger than twitter ever was.
TikTok is worldwide.
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.
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.
Hopefully, the "stop showing me this ad" feature gets fixed. I'm tired of always being presented with an ad for the "Dixie Store". No, I don't want to shop for Confederate flags and other garbage.
One of the best Twitter features was the "ad dislike" It can be done