Did they ruin it on purpose, or due to incompetence?
Yes
>>101570548On purpose because they are pure evil.
Incompetent people are put in charge on purpose to sabotage it.
>>101570548define "they".
>>101570548Could be either, but either way they don't have to worry because they have no serious competition. Where else is anyone gonna go?
>>101570548they have a functionality on the home page now where they ask to press a button to see "more video like this". But the user can't click to see the video and they are video he has never seen before.
>>101570548They went full cickbait, don't care about their reputation at this point. They favor scammer shit that makes people click.
I got hit with their baked in ads today. has there been any solution yet?
>>101570548It is impossible for something funded by advertising to not become shit, that's a direct consequence of the business model. You could have the most competent Aryan gigachads in the world run it and it would be ruined because that's simply what advertising does to things.
>>101570548just use a damn client there are so many.
>>101570588That's the worst part. I don't know how anyone could realistically compete against youtube, but it really needs competitors.
>>101570548I CAN SEE ADS NOW FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
>>101570748Is there a client that fixes the search and related videos? That's all I want. To actually find what I am looking for AND similar videos to the one I was watching. What's even the point of the search, if it shows you something else anyway?
>>101570548not my problem
>>101570814This nigga payin for youtube. Everybody laugh at this man.
>>101570548They "ruined" it because the unruined version was a monetary black hole.
>>101570833>since 2013
>>101570548Not my problem.
>>101570948i do not understand how anyone does not take breaks from this site in over 10 fucking years
>>101570710Works on my machines, how can /g/ users be this inept?Firefox+uBlockOriginRevanced on mobileJesus Christ
Both.They're basically untouchable, so they're free to push whatever shitty update they want as long as it leads to a bigger paycheck, and because nobody there knows how to code, it usually results in less features.
>>101570969I can't take breaks from this site. Sometimes my home board changes, but I never take breaks. Impossible.
just make an ai extension that if it sees a car, mobile game, food, etc it mutes the tab and blacks the video out until it's done
I didn't see any real ads yet, but I got a popup window today asking me if I wanted to get premium. This was a first for me but I assume this is a bad omen considering how things went last time they did shit with Youtube.
>>101570548On purpose, YouTube has been desperate to turn a profit for ages, and I think they do make money now because of all of alterations.The rampant censorship kept investors and advertisers. The various changes to the algorithm and the UI are meant to maximize view counts and ad view counts.Though now they could lose to TikTok or a likewise service if they keep being this unfun.
update your ublock filters
>>101570548Isn't it more popular than ever before? I think it's very admirable how YouTube is now the bastion of free speech where as a smaller channel you can say whatever you want, and the strike system is slow and gives you time to adjust. All the "alternative" platforms that have amassed an audience now just ban you for saying niggerfaggot.
>>101570548Every famous company and brand was ruined through incompetence.
>>101570802>first 3 results something tangentially related to what you searched for, only if recent>next 5 results things you have already watched that aren't related>remaining results are unwatched but also completely worthlessevery time
>be me>setup home server that automatically scrapes my favourite channels>watch videos locally whenever I want>haven't directly interacted with the site in yearsjust stop browsing recommended slop, there's still plenty of good shit on there and you're probably subscribed to it already
>>101571009Retards like this still don't comprehend A/B testing even though google has been doing it since at least 2009.
>>101572133Tt is scheduled to be defunct by the Kamala administration by July.
>>101572368its bizarre how easy it is to block ads and yet some people are still so oblivious as to how to do it30 seconds in google, you'll probably get some reddit thread who will say "ublock origin", another few minutes to set it up assuming you're completely tech illiterate
>>101570548On purpose but they had to do it because it wasn't sustainable.
I wish every creator ran their own peertube instance
>>101570548>Incorporate DASH playback>claim it's to save bandwidth>old jewtube allowed you to move forward/backward through the video without reloading anything>new jewtube deletes the entire stream and redownloads everything if you so much as move around by a fraction of a secondIt must be incompetence, even a monkey could see this drove bandwidth usage up, not down.
>>101570548>incompetencewe're way past that excuse when they started deleting old videos from inactive channels. Remember to always download and save those videos you cherish anons, because one day YT is just gonna delete them to make space for new slop.
>>101570548It's only ruined to the initiated. Thirdies who just recently came online, which are a far larger and easily convinced userbase, see nothing wrong at all.In the end it all comes down to money. You can try to tailor something to appeal to 200 million relatively educated firsties, half of whom have adblock; or you can tailor it to 2 billion uneducated thirdies that have never heard of an adblocker and will watch whatever filth is pushed to their homepage. Think about which one is more appealing to shareholders and the board. This is why despite severe enshittification, Youtube views sitewide are still several times that of say, 10 years ago. Remember T-series vs Pewdiepie.
>>101572373Sometimes you can even type the exact title of the video you are looking for, and still not find it. But it seems to be in line with google search as they have been also making that worse year by year.
>>101570560They can't possibly be evil. Their motto is "don't be evil" just like it always has been.
>>101570548>Did they ruin it on purpose, or due to incompetence?Both at the same time I suppose, for money
>>101576029They took that sign down a long time ago because they knew they weren't fooling anyone.
>>101576029That hasn't been google's motto for more than a decade.
>>101574184>expecting basic tech knowhow from /g/tardsngmi
They are pushing brain rot to deny they were used for election interference
It's not only Youtube. Google is going downhill because of pajeet incompetence.
>>101570548Greed. Everybody wants to make money on advertising now.
Some channels i've been watching since 2013ish since before they blew up and became viral have started doing the sponsorship shit too nowThere's only a very select few left now who aren't selling out and do it for the content (steveMRE and a couple others)Fuck joolag man
>>101570548It’s literally owned by the state and is being used to socially engineer the populace
>>101570548Both
>be any day of current time>try to troubleshoot which one of your dozen extensions that make shittube usable is broken today>hover over something recommended that is not a topic you normally watch>think if i click this the home page will instantly be nothing but that>watch it anyway>homepage instantly becomes nothing but that>repeat ad nauseam until your home page is nothing but shit you don't want to watch>delete history, click a bunch of dont recommend channel buttons>neither works
>>101570548What do you mean ruin? A business got to make money and Youtube isn't doing it.
>>101570582>define "they".oy vey
>>101574915DASH is truly the worst invention ever conceived of.
>>101570548I don't know what the fuck yo'all schizos are talking aboutit works perfectly fine for me in either brave, librawolf & firefox 78.9, no ads whatsoever
