Says the user who didn't even read the article. The whole first half had nothing to do with the author's values. It was about the poor implementation of AI algorithms as it relates to creator functionality. Shitty AI creator workflow, automatic ad injection, blocking of viewers to combat ad blockers...

Useless reply.

So, someone writing about making choices aligned with their values, got it.

Values and creator-side issues aside, YouTube is just awful to use in its natural state just from a user experience perspective.

Way too many ads per minute of content watched, the ads are all extremely low quality and a lot of them are just outright scams these days.

You can solve this to some degree (on some devices) using adblockers, but YouTube has been going out of its way over the past year making this as difficult as possible.

And there are non-ad issues as well, eg. the algorithm absolutely sucks at discovering new content.

Those values being the proliferation of AI, YouTube's settlement to Trump, unbanning of conspiracy theory and hate-speech creators popular amongst Trump's base, and a moral complaint about AI age-checking, and censorship (particularly around the most recent Israel-Gaza conflict.)