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I was big time addicted to youtube for a while starting around 2010, mostly bc the recommended videos were so good and content that was uploaded was more raw and silly then now. But at some point the recommendations got really bad, so much so that it made it a lot less enjoyable. I miss those days.

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10 minute minimum length for monetization killed short good content. There's still good content, but it doesnt respect your time.

Now they're pushing shorts, which are (in my opinion) too short to convey all the relevant info. Not sure how monetization works with shorts, since I use an adblock, but 50%+ of my subscription feed is shorts on some days and it suck (for me personally)

if the adblock you're using is ublock origin then you can add this to your filters to block shorts on the homepage

www.youtube.com##.ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope

there's probably more filters to block shorts in other places like the suggestions sidebar if you look for them, but i have the sidebar disabled completely so the above filter was enough for me

Seriously. I've seen videos with two minutes of very interesting content and 8 minutes of fluff. It's so frustrating.

ironically enough Patreon brought it back a bit. At least for the biggest animators and short form creators. YT is a great advertising platform for certain channels and kinds of content.

YT shorts I guess is their solution to that... Still not a big fan and I hear the rates paid to yourubers is horrible.

Same here, it's really hard to get "lost" in YouTube nowadays

arguably, this is a good thing

In what way? Getting "lost" on youtube just meant following your interests until it strayed far away from the original video. Jumping video to video was fairly similar to "surfing" the web by jumping hyperlink to hyperlink.

Now it feels like Youtube controls the tide towards some fixed direction outside of the user control, which is frankly really boring. It's almost like the opposite of TickTock if comparing to other platforms.

What could the argument against seeing more things, and thus more ads, possibly be?

your mental health?

...You serious?

Same here. I assumed there was less good content being made on YT. Or is it that the recommendation engine has gotten worse?

I remember having good recommendations from various channels which I subscribed to. Now if I watch a new video for 5 minutes, my feed is flooded with those new contents and strangers.

For goodness's sake, I just want to view contents from my subscription, not taste changer.

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