In less than a decade>Removed annotations>Removed the Leanback interface which was great for HTPCs>Removed dislikes>Made age restriction impossible to bypass without an account>Randomly flags your account and blocks you from viewing age restricted videos unless you give your ID>Became flooded with jeets and AI slop>Paywalled certain quality and playback speed options>Started blocking the use of ad blockers>Temporarily IP banning people for using YouTube downloaders>Made an account mandatory to watch videos if a minor appears in them for even a second>Considering embedding ads directly to the video stream so ad blockers and 3rd party apps like NewPipe won't be able to block them, this also means that downloaded copies will also have ads
>>109812136AND IT STILL CANNOT SEARCH MY PLAYLISTS WHEN I GO TO ADD A PLAYLIST TO A VIDEOIT'S BEEN 20 YEARS
>>109812136>In less than a decadeLurk more. YouTube died long before your ten-year window. You are mourning the second decay of a corpse that was embalmed fifteen years ago.>2009: Killed 5-star ratings for binary thumbs, which you now ironically cry about losing.>2010: Phased out video responses—the only feature that enabled organic community dialogue.>2012: Murdered custom channel layouts to turn every page into sterile corporate billboard slop.>2013: Forced Google+ integration to dox anonymous users with their legal names.>2013: Killed raw progressive FLV buffering for chunked MPEG-DASH specifically so you couldn't let the gray bar fill and rip the cached file straight from /tmp/.>2015: Nuked the v2 API, deliberately crippling RSS subscription feeds and third-party players.>2017: Deployed Polymer, turning a lean website into 20MB of JavaScript bloat that cooked laptop CPUs just to render a comment section.The "golden era" you remember was Google burning billions on bandwidth at an astronomical loss to starve every competitor—Vimeo, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stage6, and self-hosted sites—into bankruptcy. Once the web abandoned independent media hosting and outsourced its video infrastructure to Mountain View, the trap snapped shut.You surrendered decentralized protocols, local archival, and P2P distribution for free convenience. Now you act shocked when an ad broker treats your browser like enemy territory. Server-side ad injection, Manifest V3, and DRM attestation aren't anomalies; they are the inevitable terminal state of centralized Web 2.0.Real /g/ users never touched their bloated web interface anyway. mpv, yt-dlp piped through socks5, SponsorBlock, and local storage arrays. If you're still sitting in Chromium expecting a surveillance monopoly to deliver petabytes of uncompressed video to your doorstep for free, you deserve every unskippable ad.
>>109812149*ADD A VIDEO TO A PLAYLIST
>>109812136I almost forgot>removed the ability to sort by most recent in search
>>109812149>WHEN I GO TO ADD A PLAYLIST TO A VIDEO
>>109812149works on ytmusic, add playlist to any video you want. i'm not quite certain why they didn't just put the same indexing in the yt backend.
>>109812136you missed the front end being complete shit show now
>>109812136You left out a whole bunch of stuff.>removed "sort by upload date" in search>ruined search with all kinds of irrelevant garbage (people also watched etc.), fixed with an extension>forced title autotranslations, you need a separate extension to fix it>forced mixes (autogenerated playlists) when clicking on a song, again solved with an extension or userscript>reduced the number of videos per row (solved with an extension once again)>won't shut the fuck up about shorts and if you block them completely it fucks up the home page>replaced the logged in sidebar with a version where the not interested/don't recommend buttons are just placebos>activity encourages AI slop by providing shitty tools in the creator studio, but also bans AI slop channels, just not nearly enough of themI'm sure there's plenty more, but I'm gonna give myself an aneurism if I think about it for much longer
>>109812197another one>FUCKING GIGANTIC THUMBNAILS THAT EACH TAKE UP LIKE 30% OF THE SCREEN
>>109812136Still using Odysee since it allows nudity and naughty ideas and words.
>>109812197>removed "sort by upload date" in searchI ended up remembering it only after making the thread >>109812153
>>109812136this is an unsolveable problem since youtube has a near monopoly on free video hosting and its impossible to get people to pay for anything onlinethere could be an alternative to youtube but it would have to be paid because ads are cancer. odysee/rumble would inevitably do the same shit if they got big, which they wont because youtube has the cultural power and all the content of the last 20 years
lol niggers want granular control over everythingi am happy with the ux/ui, it has everything i want>wait, maybe i am the nigger anon
>>109812136>Became flooded with jeets and AI slopI didn't realize how bad it was until I tried browsing youtube in a private window. I get that algorithmic curation has it's downsides and all but at least youtube's seems understands that I hate slop.
>>109812150Vimeo died because it didn't know it had a bunch of Italian shows and some cable company DMCA'd them for 8 billion, this was BEFORE they were bought out by Bending Faggots
>>109812136I miss when YT was an actual social media with groups, messaging, friends, and shiiiiet. But I guess that's too hard to moderate when you allow millions of third worlders onto the platform trying to scam everyone.
>>109812136>Started blocking the use of ad blockersYT was only winning that arms race for one brief period that lasted about two months. During that time I simply stopped watching YT completely. YT suicided its own ad revenue by introducing midroll ads. This drove more people to try ad blockers than anything before or since. And what's done is done. YT can never close Pandora's box.
>>109812136Calling it right now, they're going to require Widevine to even watch anything by 2030.
>>109812150Back in the day people could also message each other on Yt.All the early influencers did their giveaways on Yt only. Now you gotta fucking do the instagram shit or whatever, because the faggots cannot contact you on Yt if you won.Retard nigger monkeyshttps://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1789358241443217.webm
>>109812136another website when
>>109812136Youtube has been worthless since google bought it and started paying people to upload
>>109812741>Back in the day people could also message each other on Yti wish it would come backtrying to exchange emails with somebody on there without getting doxxed or spammed is nearly impossibleive done it by handwriting my addy and taking a vid then trying to link it in the comments and then pull it down asap but im pretty sure i got temp shadowb& once for itfuck jootoob is but a shadow of its former glory
>>109813130imo not really due to enshittification but more due to abuse by bad actors. also they want 100% airtight user protection, not legally required but it prevents mishaps at scale. imagine the size of the moderation crew google would need to sort out youtube dms.
>Have you tried switching to an alternative service?>Oh, you can't?>Geez, that's terrible
>>109812136Since YouTube runs the same ads over and over, removing them from a downloaded video might not be that difficult. Also, I would honestly prefer embedding ads, it would make the ads way less glitchy. Also, it might actually end up being easier to block embedding ads, since you could just skip forward in the ads, rather than preventing the whole mode change to a separate video stream.
>throwbackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwwB9P_0PQ&list=PLQ-vj-1o77OnnwewHgisFTOFLxTCbGt_a
>>109813161the fone app now has a dm option but i havent tried itim sure itll devolve into a raperat creep fest with privacyless ai moderation datamining everything else
Searches with profanity in them also sometimes cause a prompt to sign in and/or verify your age
>>109813246Yes. Even "pussyfooting". You like a song with "pussyfooting" in the title? Too bad. Verify ID.We are so fucked.
They often get the opposite of what they want. I used to listen to podcasts uploaded there like this: open Firefox, start video, lock phone, start video -> enjoy video plus whatever ads there were - most of them are read-outs from the podcaster anyway.Then someone disabled video playback on a lock screen with Firefox, but only for YT. My public TV streaming still works as discussed above, for instance. So I'm pretty sure some dipshit at YT threatened or bribed Mozilla.So now I download only the audio via yt-dlp, foregoing the YT ads for sure. Certainly that's what they wanted me to do.
>>109813331Google doesn't allow apps that let you play YouTube in the background on Google Play, I remember a few years ago Kiwi Browser briefly got booted over it until they made an update that blocked it.
>>109813359There was an extension you could install to restore it though so maybe Firefox has something similar.
>>109813359Actually it looks like they've eased off on that because both Brave and Opera let me play YouTube in the background once background video playback is enabled in the settings. I think it's just YouTube downloaders that still aren't allowed.
>>109812263what is the purpose of these posts?
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>>109812136When I opened the Youtube app the other day it opened directly to Shorts and started playing the first one.Did it a couple of times and then stopped. A/B testing maybe?
>>109812136Its not just YouTube about the ads. All services go down this path. Netflix introduced ads despite people paying for Netflix to get away from ads.As soon as enough people are not watching ads, even if they pay to do so, that is simply not allowed. Advertisers are like dirty pigeons and vermin oily rats that are a plague on humanity and follow humans around where ever they go - advertisers will simply follow, they will kvetch and slime their way in.You are not allowed to not be constantly be bombarded with advertising.
>>109812150>2013: Forced Google+ integration to dox anonymous users with their legal names.That one was NUTS. I remember that well. I didn't use my real name, but it was insane that they forced everyone to change their names and said it was a policy and rule that it be your real legal name. It's so crazy they actually got away with that. It's so surreal to think back and remember how like 75% of youtube comments for a time were real legal names. The goyim actually obeyed holy shit!
>>109813359well lucky we got newpipe from fdroid then. its crazy how shit android is becoming, i might switch to an linux phone in the next few years
>>109812136>Made age restriction impossible to bypass without an accountskill issue
>>109812150this guys knows
I fucking hate how it just recomends the same 100 vids I've already seen or don't want to watch no matter how many times I refresh and that if I see 2 vids I want to see and click on them and go back to the homepage the other one is gone but the 9,000 vids I don't want to see are still there
>>109813622>skill issueIs your answer "rent accounts from malaysia" or some similar shit?
>>109812150Thank you ChatGPT for remaining so polite towards your corporate masters. I especially like the namedrop of failed flop sites from Category:Former_video_hosting_services and "real /g/ users" pretending you were one.
>>109813731Or it refreshes itself and the video you wanted to watch is gone forever
>>109813416Once you go contrarian enough it goes full 360 and it becomes radical conformism.
>>109813464Possibly. YouTubr constantly A/B tests stuff, it can't get enough of torturing lab rats.But why would you use the app to begin with?
>>109813746that too, holy shit
