Its horrible. I search all the time on YouTube and instead of giving me the results I searched for YouTube serves me my recommendations
It's like 50% ads and 45% similar-searches (which I assume are mostly just subtle ads). So in the end, each search gets you like 2 real results and 38 pieces of bullshit.
All the YouTubers and companies engage in SEO and sanitize the content until it’s ad friendly. I just wish it was human friendly like what made them big in the first place
Try these ublock rules:
www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/People also watched/i)) www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Previously watched/i)) www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Related to your search/i)) www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has-text(/Shorts/i)```
They're just keeping up with Google search
For real, I just tried finding a goddamn Shakespeare quote and Google Search couldn't fucking do it. I had to switch to DuckDuckGo!
Man i remember when google was the end all be all. If it's on the internet, i could find it. I had to search for somany obscure things, like old as serial numbers on machineries, qnd would always find something at least related.
Now it feels like we're back to yahoo search.
Platforms like YouTube and Reddit have the fundamental issue that they feel entitled to incredible amounts of money for serving content they didn't create. They make lots off money off the back of creators, then find new and malicious ways to be a platform that's just painful to be on.
I disabled watch and search history on my Google accounts (recommend everyone do that), and now there's this passive aggressive blank home page when I open YouTube as if that's the best experience they could come up with. Don't show me content I'm subscribed to or anything, just a blank page like fuck you.
There should be a way for creators like the author here to be compensated, while the platform gets a fair cut for hosting it and making it easy to find the content you want. Google, across all their platforms, has forgotten that getting people to the right content was what made them the best platform in the past. Instead, it's forcing you through a swath of shit you don't want, in hopes they make more ad revenue.
Fuck the decision makers at these platforms.
I haven't used it myself, but the ethos of the grayjay video app is "follow content creators, not platforms".
Drives me crazy. I tried to find an old video the other day and only found reuploads despite getting other results from the channel and I assumed it was just deleted.
Not to mention corporate news. It's impossible to find anyone else discussing particular events or raw video or even live streams without wading through what seems like thousands of every damn news channel with their talking heads and editors about any topic. I certainly understand why it's important to have news easily accessible, but it kills me that I used to be able to find news media critique and videos of happenings from everyday people, and I just can't anymore, at least not without serious digging. Obviously the rise of other video platforms plays a role, as does the need to ensure accurate information for specific things, like a pandemic or climate change, but I can't help but see just how homogenized and corporatized it's all become.
This isn't to say there aren't great channels out there that meet my needs, I just miss being able to type a keyword in and finding regular people, not trying to game the algorithm, not trying to make youtube a career, just getting their voices out there.
YouTube recommends the most bullshit local news from an irrelevant place when I subscribe to the channels I wanna see news from. So ridiculous
King Dragon sends his regards.
Why though
Money.
I liked youtube better in the era when its leading star was a talking orange.
I tried watching a video today and couldn't even get it to load. Firefox with adblock, so there's my (their) problem probably.
It should still work. Are you up to date? Running any other blockers?
