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The last thing I could be proud of about my work at Google was the YouTube product, and we have completely destroyed this along with everything else. Once upon a time YouTube’s mission was to enable creators, and their platforms. And now it’s just to make money and spread propaganda via news channels. FINDING NEW CHANNELS FROM CREATORS IS IMPOSSIBLE. When I want to learn about new stories, like the recent FBI probe into the Baltimore Bridge collapse, I search YouTube in hopes of finding an in depth analysis from a creator. Instead I scroll by hundreds of 2 minute long news articles about it, and not a single, genuine analysis of the situation, from a creator. Fuck you Alphabet, and ruining everything you touch.
That’s how every business starts. End goal is to make money. But initially they will pretend to save the world with their narrative to acquire customers. And when the growth stops, that’s when they start hammering. More ads, ad supported in plan, promote cringe/catchy and downright immoral content since it keeps users hooked. Google used to mock Microsoft by saying “don’t be evil”. They were doing that just to keep market dominance. I used to tell my friends that google will be evil too. Not just Microsoft. Now look at google. Apple mocks google for showing ads and selling user data. That’s because currently their business model is based on selling hardware. Now that their hardware sales have kind of saturating, they are looking for new avenues to make money. Apple has started showing ADs in App Store, news app and few other places already. Cola cola and Pepsi mock each other. YouTube was never meant for independent creators. That was just a narrative to gain market share. YouTube was always about making money. They are in the business of making money and not social welfare. Classic pig butchering. Money is the only truth.
Don't be evil? More like: Don't, be evil.
Don’t; Be evil. *
Indeed. First YT add more ads - 2 stack on top of each other. Then comes the autoplay. If you are on the road and do not have unlimited plan - you data usage is off the roof. Of course, this looks better for YT OKRS - ‘look, we have more video plays and binge watch’. YT shorts are functionally inferior to TikTok - you cannot return to the previous shorts and resume. It always start from the beginning. When you swipe away from one shorts quickly, the sound and video does not sync. You’d be watching a new shorts with soundtrack from the previous shorts. YT engineers never figured out how to solve these problems. The personalization is horrific. I got fed so much useless recommendations that I immediately shut down YT after seeing one. Google is full speed declining across the board, thanks to useless sundar and his Indian crew
It’s still pretty good for stuff about random hobbies and other long-tail subjects.
Youtube short is the most distracting shit and deviate so much from the old youtube content
I have history turned off because it’s like eating a bag of cotton candy you found in the trash.
Forget YouTube. I would just be happy if they could stop screwing up Google Search. Once upon a time, you'd get 10 simple search results that actually meant something, along with a couple clearly marked Sponsored results. Click next and you get another 10 results. Remember those days? Pepperridge Farm remembers!
Thank you for your post. As a user, you tube has lost all creativity, variety, user interests. It feeds from your Gmail, even spam folder. Mr Google if you wanted revenue start producing better products not just push ads and more ads.
Yes I also noticed the feed is dominated by cnbc,WSJ etc
Even paying for Premium, that has no ‘Ads’, these channels “organically” show up first on my feed. Such bullshit.
Free is unusable. Been premium since the red days many years back