I'd love to disable my ad blockers and pay for video content (as I do for Netflix and Nebula), but YouTube has time and time again disappointed me. Some of the most egregious instances:
- Overzealous Content ID and lack of punishment for false claims. I understand it's more lightweight than DMCA and easier for YouTube, but when you're such a cultural hub the standards should be higher.
- Rewarding longer videos and causing even the most straightforward 30-second content to balloon to 12+ minutes.
- Hiding all content on Home until you enable "watch history" (hey, why not give me suggestions based on my carefully curated list of subscriptions?).
- Promoting absolutely bottom-of-the-barrel Shorts content.
- Favoring provocative content, creating the alt-right pipeline[1].