Post #1111464
2026-04-10 13:39 UTC
Replies (5)
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2026-04-10 13:44
There's a lot of good stuff on youtube. Educational videos. Catchy music from more obscure groups. Enthusiastic hobbyists. But the enshittification has progressed too far. The site is barely usable without an ad-blocker, and the algorithm seems intent upon making me as angry as possible. An enraged viewer is an engaged viewer! And the comments, well... any remotely political video is a toxic cesspit, where the mob gleefully cheers on murder and genocide.
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2026-04-10 13:57
And then there are the shorts. Nothing good there. Most of them consist of just taking a popular scene from a movie or TV program, butchering it to make it play fast and without a moment pause, slapping on some text and playing horrible music over it. I don't watch them. I don't want them. But youtube constantly tries to shove them at me. Even on the subscriptions tabs, it ads shorts from channels. I've not subscribed to. Because shorts sell more ads, that's why.
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2026-04-10 14:00
Now I just need an alternative I guess that means more audiobooks and maybe catch up on all those TV shows I torrented and never watched. I can still use youtube at work. Stick o the subscriptions tab and avoid the suggestions it's tolerably awful. The ads are the worst, as work has no effective ad-blocker. We did look in to it once, but too many sites these days come with ad-blocker-blockers that render the site unusable if the ads won't load. Building the net upon adverts was a bad idea.
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2026-04-10 14:07
It just threw a bunch more at me. "Feminist HR Team Bans 'Bro Culture' and Is STUNNED When Male Bonding Moves to Secret Slack Channels" and "I worked for DEI - what I reveal will shock you." I don't watch any of these, at least longer than it takes me to realise they are crap. If I did, youtube would probably be on to giving me full-blown neo-nazi videos by now. Anyway, time to pack up, rambling complaining done for now.
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@arcturax@chitter.xyz 2026-04-10 14:26
@Qybat just google realizing they almost missed the opportunity to jump on the Trump train before it slams into the ground at 40,000 kph