[nyjah]

I’m a YouTube premium subscriber. Just yesterday I found myself opening a private window to watch a video with ads, rather than letting the algorithm know I was watching the video on my account. Even if I remove the video from my watch history, YouTube can’t help itself. You make a great point on stale content and the overall enshittification is becoming intolerable.

[qingcharles]

Pay a little extra for YouTube Premium Family and you can silo your interests to different Google profiles. I have work and home like this basically. Coding, AI, etc on one, cars, retro games on another. No ads.

[BLKNSLVR]

> Pay a little extra

:disappointed face:

That's always the solution when the problem is enshittification. Pay a little extra for what you remember it used to be like.

For only $2 more you can get the large fries and coke, but for $5 more you get the jumbo!

[immibis]

idk though, YouTube Premium is pretty good value if you're using it enough to care about recommendation hygiene. I remember the days everyone was begging to have the option to pay to skip ads. Well, YouTube did what we wanted, and now we're complaining about it for some reason.

Enshittification is when a middleman platform locks in buyers and then locks in sellers. It's not when things cost money. YouTube has enshittification, but the enshittification isn't merely the fact that it costs money. In fact, any non-shit platform for anything would probably (either be run as a hobby or) cost money to use since it wouldn't fund itself by stealing from you.

[the_af]

Wow. In my case the YT recommendations system works very well, only suggesting things similar to what I've already watched and liked.

I would never use YouTube in incognito mode or logged out... it's positively garish and loud with garbage.