I have to actually be thankful to the flood of AI slop content in my feed.
It was the final push I needed to stop trying to randomly browse YouTube and use my time in more interesting ways.
Why can’t companies operate on a sustainable revenue model? Why does it always need to be constant growth year over year?
Because investors make the most money on the value of the company increasing. The higher the revenue, the higher the value of the company.
since the late 90’s. I mean its always been the case but then it got sorta stupid and the mentality just grew and grew.
I’ve had my YouTube adblocked for quite some time now.
Fuck them and their disgusting practices.
It’s almost like flooding your ad saturated platform with AI content, while simultaneously punishing and alienating genuine creators, is a bad idea.
They need to stop having unrealistic expectations of constant growth. But tell that to any cancer and see where it gets you.
Capitalism, like all pyramid schemes, requires constant exponential growth in order to function. It can be temporarily allayed with reforms, but if you miss the mark to transition it to socialism, it just is cancer and will kill whatever society it has infected.
It’s a terrible fact it’s a necessary step in societal development, but we have long since found the cure and roughly the right time to excise the tumor.
Thing is they’d be growing if not for AI spending
True
I’ve jumped ship to nebula and dropout. Spending less money for what I actually want and also getting zero ads and slop.
When I read stuff like this, I realize people use YouTube very differently to me. I follow creators and those creators are not on other platforms. This means that jumping ship to other platforms is not an option unless I want to start watching 90% new stuff.
I also already watch stuff on Nebula & Dropout in addition to the YouTube creators I enjoy.
Oh that’s the thing. 95% of all the creators I enjoy are already on one of those two platforms.
Maybe they should focus on making a great platform instead of a shitty one. Just an idea.
It was great in 2006. That’s why Google bought it.
Have they tried cramming unskipable ads everywhere?
I’m sure it has something to do with the AI slop it’s become.
Bring back dislikes
YouTube tried to feed me a Caesar Milan video (abusive dog trainer, may not have spelled his name correctly), so I pulled it up in order to block the channel.
There was no way to block it. Now YouTube thinks I like that asshole.
Maybe they should make their site another fucking endless scroll where they blend videos with shorts and memes, making it more like every other social media site 🫠
What are ads?
You know, those 5 videos every 2 minutes that talk about meta glasses, gambling, and GLP-1s
No, I wouldn’t know because I don’t see this garbage you speak of.
As someone that pays for premium, my subscription is very very VERY vaguely tenable at best.
It is worth the price of access but just barely, it is a case of it the quality dips any further or the price increases even slightly then I will be back to the old path.
Alas, with Google intent on closing the side loading gap on android, things like Newpipe are going to go the way of the Dodo.
drop the premium and apply an ad blocker. that will make it more bearable. premium isn’t really premium if you’re not feeling like you’re getting a good deal.
I use DNS blocking and have NextDNS and AdGuard DNS on different devices. Both have clear instructions on how to set up.
Or even easier get Wipr if you’re on Apple devices. Android has even more options.
- Morphe patcher for YouTube
- Load a custom ROM like Lineage or Graphene to get off the Google play services teat and leave the certification crap behind
With s plethora of options to block ads on desktop, mobile, and TV, why give an evil company money?
What do you recommend for TV?
