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YouTube has lost their fucking minds (lemmygrad.ml)
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I thought 15 unskippable ads were bad, but that was the tip of the iceberg. Now they're 30-45 seconds unskippable, and they aren't even ads anymore. I'm getting full on hour long podcasts spliced into the middle of videos now.

The Search is damn near useless now because when you look something up, you get a wall of unrelated YT shorts and "People also searched" reccs instead of what you asked for.

Israel ads are of course unskippable and even if they were, they're quite frequent and just blasting nonsense right into your face. None of this is even getting into the use of AI to decide whether or not you're even allowed to have an account

This is both not fucking sustainable and the soulless capitalist model isn't going anywhere because it's so profitable. I have no idea how this is going to end but I hope a new platform comes along soon that actually works and isn't immediately set upon by right wing losers.

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[โ€“] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

idk i've been getting some banger recommendations lately. my account is also super old and i've clicked "don't recommend" on a ton of right-wing shit over the years.

ublock still beats youtube on chromium browsers that didn't break that manifest thing, but we should all be moving to one of those non-ai non-crypto firefox derivatives and get somebody in china to make a new fourth renderer.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

fourth renderer

servo is supposed to be that and the linux foundation people are working on it. last i checked it's actually coming along slowly but nicely.