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.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I never intentionally click YouPube links. If I want to watch any videos there then I consult Invidious, and if that proves too difficult then I download the videos through Parabolic. The downside is that I can’t access age-restricted videos.

    I have never made a YouPube account. The community there is mostly terrible and I don’t expect the users whom I like to interact with me for more than a few seconds. Likewise, I have little skill in making videos, so, overall, there is not much reason for me to make an account. I can’t say that I have ever regretted my decision to avoid making one there, especially since I despise Google.