YouTube

I found some of the best learning videos on youtube. Things that I couldn't learn in university. That's why I don't use the word education, because academic teaching is filled with learning useless things. Here like some places of the Internet only the things that I need come right under my fingers.

I use youtube because its where all the videos are, not because it is good. They delete peoples accounts and videos for no reason, and removed features like rating videos by stars. google has ruined this site with ads and censorship. People need to move to other platforms away from youtube and someone should create a search engine that specializes searches for videos thats not google, and finds videos so uploaders who don't use youtube can be found.

YouTube is the #1 video-streaming platform and the second-most visited website of all time, only behind Google Search. Of course, with the two being owned by Google, that doesn't mean they're actually the best.

Here, what I believe are the worst mistakes that Google has done to YouTube since they bought the site (besides the major privacy concerns stemming from Google):

• In 2013, YouTube made it a requirement to have a Google+ account to comment on videos, in an attempt to stop trolls; this only caused an outrage for millions of users, including YouTube's co-founder, Jawed Karim. That change was removed later. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/08/youtube-cofounder-why-the-fuck-do-i-need-a-google-account-to-comment
• YouTube removed annotations in 2019, removing the custom-built functionality for interactive games. https://mashable.com/article/the-death-of-youtube-annotations
• YouTube was required to comply to COPPA later in 2019 due to several violations; all video creators from this point on were now required to confirm whether or not their videos are made for kids. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children
• In an effort to compete with TikTok YouTube released Shorts, the short-form, vertical video format for their website in 2021. (Need I remind you, some of the videos are quite cringe-worthy and low-effort if I must say so myself.)
• Second-worst change. In November 2021, YouTube removed the public dislike count on videos and only made it available to the video creators in YouTube Studio, in an effort to prevent attacks on small creators. This, however, only provides more confusion as it's now harder to determine what videos are actually helpful or decent-quality and what videos are not. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-59264070
• In 2022, YouTube set a limit on how many users can watch a small creator's live stream or how many times a small creator's video can be watched; that limit could be made more lenient if that creator had more subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkENyu-iGw0
• Worst-change thus far. AND ONGOING. In May 2023, YouTube began to crack down on people using ad-blockers on the site, citing that they must disable the ad-blockers or whitelist YouTube to continue watching videos. Another option would be to purchase a YouTube Premium subscription to watch without ads. It only got worse from here. https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/youtubes-test-run-of-the-three-strikes-youre-out-policy-against-ad-blockers-seems-like-a-bit-much
• In March 2024, a UTTP outbreak occured, with "YouTube Troll Police" users poking fun at popular content creators, using the hard N, and just spewing the same comments all. Over. The network. Crazier still, YouTube did nothing about the trolls, instead pinning the consequences on the users reporting the trolls. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1bbbk0n/i_said_to_a_uttp_bot_account/
• YouTube very frequently brings up unnecessary features at the expense of features we users actually want (and need). Recently in September 2024, YouTube introduced generative AI (both in video ideas and in video creation), boosts for small creators (known as Hype), and a method of donating money to small creators in vertical videos (known as Jewels). Quite frankly, the generative AI part bothers me the most because the platform is called YouTube, as in you make the videos, not AI. https://blog.google/products/youtube/made-on-youtube-2024/
• Ads have become a very common issue for YouTube users. Years ago, there was one 15 to 30-second ad (which can be skipped most of the time) at the very beginning of the video and/or a banner ad at the bottom of the video after ten seconds. It would end up being more ads per video, but fortunately, you could see when they'd play according to the yellow markers (which were removed later). Now, there are chances of getting back-to-back (2+ ads at a time) unskippable ads, each lasting either six seconds or 15 seconds. Ads that were at least 30 seconds long or longer were guaranteed to be skippable unless they were on a longer video. Worse yet, some of these ads were either scams or NSFW, yet the actual user-created videos were not allowed to promote either of these activities. Ironic. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1dbawbt/youtube_is_doing_shit_with_ads_again/

Man, what a list. But this is just sickening of YouTube at this point.

Do better.

Although sometimes my recommended cycles videos I've seen previously, I overall enjoy the app. It's also (obviously) very popular, so it allows a wide selection of entertainment.

YouTube is censoring "bad words" and we just letting that happen?

Discussion As for dislike disappearing. They removed one of the key feature of the site and we are supposed to be okay with it? I feel like not enough was made in order to have it reinstated. I miss the time when the community could pressure YouTube into doing what we felt was right

There are still good things about youtube. But the site is getting worse. They keep making bad updates to their platform. It's gotten to the point where I was using multiple extensions just for youtube before using freetube & newpipe. That's not even mentioning the inconsistent moderation. I shouldn't be getting clickbait torture porn when I search for a clip of an hbo show.

First they remove the proper rating system, then they remove the dislike feature. They frequently mark videos I only hovered my cursor over as watched, and don't mark actually watched videos as that.

YouTube checklist: -deleting whole channels multiple times without giving any reasons -enforcing censorship -refusing to listen to the community -adding broken shorts feature no one asked for.

Shitty app without basic features like black mode. Limited playback speed controls.

I need four chrome extensions to make the site work like it should