[thomassmith65]

If I had a magic wand, I'd create a non-profit, funded by the world's governments, to host the bulk of the world's videos. Wojcicki's Youtube doesn't care if when a user browses the site, it's like wading through a sea of garbage, as long as the user browses for as many hours as possible.

[BuyMyBitcoins]

Browsing YouTube without an AdBlocker and cosmetic filters that hide emblems and badges on the video player is truly shocking. I really sense the goal of YouTube isn’t to get you to watch something, it’s to get you to watch something else - at all times.

I’ve seen it recommend related videos as soon as the video starts playing. It will recommend videos as soon as you click pause. There will be little interstitial recommendation overlays as it plays. How desperate must product managers at YouTube be to push this so strongly?

Thankfully I crafted some filters to hide all of this, but it’s so user hostile that I feel bad for anyone that doesn’t know how to get rid of all this noise.

[Akronymus]

But hey, they removed those in video notes that were actually useful a lot of the times. Or community closed captioning. Or being able to disable that fucking miniplayer when you are in a playlist and navigate somewhere else. I have multiple tabs for a reason FFS.

[ctoth]

Didn't recognize the name, Googled her (CEO of YouTube), today is her birthday. Funny.

[thomassmith65]

Up until 2018, I used to joke that "Youtube is CEO-less." There were articles bemoaning Youtube's toxicity, but they never contained the word 'Wojcicki'.

These days, the press sometimes – though still not often – mentions her name.