I thought 15 unskippable ads were bad, but that was the tip of the iceberg. Now they’re 30-45 seconds unskippable, and they aren’t even ads anymore. I’m getting full on hour long podcasts spliced into the middle of videos now.

The Search is damn near useless now because when you look something up, you get a wall of unrelated YT shorts and “People also searched” reccs instead of what you asked for.

Israel ads are of course unskippable and even if they were, they’re quite frequent and just blasting nonsense right into your face. None of this is even getting into the use of AI to decide whether or not you’re even allowed to have an account

This is both not fucking sustainable and the soulless capitalist model isn’t going anywhere because it’s so profitable. I have no idea how this is going to end but I hope a new platform comes along soon that actually works and isn’t immediately set upon by right wing losers.

  • RevolutionsPerMinute@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago
    • I use Brave browser, and it automatically blocks ads without the need to even have U-block Origin or other plug-ins
    • PocketTube (https://pockettube.io/) is a nice extension for organizing channels - that way you can keep an eye on new videos from channels you actually care about, and ignore whatever propaganda crap the algorithm is trying to throw at you
    • YT search is indeed awful, you’re better off using the web search engine of your choice and sorting by videos
    • I would love to stop using YT altogether, but as of right now there aren’t any alternatives that are comparable in scope - Tankie Tube is cool, but it doesn’t have uploads of all the channels I follow, so still have to use YT