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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.

I open the vanilla app on someone else's computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.

Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it's some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.

Came to YouTube because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that's just not the case anymore.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The new ads suck. It's so frustrating to use. I'm hoping a PiHole will get rid of em but I think I remember reading that Google does some nasty shit to dodge that

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I certainly prefer fewer and longer ad breaks, over several short ones, but this still sucks.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why prefer any of it...block em all and tell corporations to pound sand.

Don't negotiate with terrorists.