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.

  • BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    I believe invidious (the one that bot always links to) is a nice frontend if you wanna watch from your browser that eliminates ads. But ofc, can’t have access to the googlo accout. But you can create a custom one to at least have subscriptions.

    inv.nadeko.net

    is such an instane from someone in Chile. You can also self host.