[IshKebab]

It's pretty great still if you pay for YouTube Premium (which IMO is a good deal given you get YouTube Music too). The sponsor ads are easy to skip too. Half the videos even mark the ad sections in the timeline or even have an on screen timer to make it easier.

[key_peace_pulse]

I started using an adskipper Chrome extension called Clear Skies.

I use Firefox and ublock Origin for every other website but I use Chrome/ Clear Skies just for youtube because those dogs are blocking me with Firefox/ublock and even with ublock disabled they are nerfing Firefox by throttling it to make the experience unbearably laggy.

[whywhywhywhy]

It’s not just the ads now, they slip gross out and shock content into search results because people can’t help but click it.

Really wish Neal Mohamed would realize when I’m searching for recipes to cook for dinner I do not wish to see: black head videos, hair lice infestation, CCTV of a Chinese child dying in a faulty elevator, ear cleaning videos in my search results. All of which Neal Mohans algorithm has served me when searching for recipes and I’ve never clicked a single one.

I know its a purpose build in shock video cos it always shows in an extra box that includes 1 video I have watched before, 1 gross out video, 1 mainstream video all unrelated to the search

[ChickeNES]

I think you're underestimating the popularity of that kind of content, if reality TV is anything to go by.

And personally, I think I may have seen a pimple popping video...once? And I just hit the "not interested in this" button and have never seen one again. Though, I've always made sure to keep my watch history tidy, so the vast majority of recommendations I see are spot-on

[whywhywhywhy]

I understand it’s popular but they understand I’m searching for food.

[MaxikCZ]

Noone is underestimating those kind of videos are popular, but given how much information google ingests (and sells) about us, is it too much to ask to stop being reccomended popular bullshit? Just because 8 out of 10 people watch that doesnt mean everyone needs to be served that.

[pixxel]

Paying to be surveilled isn’t pretty great.

[fragmede]

Paying people so they can continue to keep doing what they're doing without having to watch ads is, though.

[IshKebab]

Good job I'm not paying for that!