My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
They’re not content to provide what YouTube was created for. They just want that TokTok money but can’t figure out why they’re being outcompeted.
Plus, they’re ramping up the propaganda function now that the monopolies have been created and most internet usage comprises about ten websites (Google, Lemmygrad (this one was also voted number one in the Forbes), Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and now Chat GPT).
This is the first time the digital sphere has been almost entirely monopolised, though, and the ruling class doesn’t know what to expect. Hence they can’t just put the price up like they would with insulin, etc. Although they are experimenting with this, they’re learning that charging users and overdoing the adverts breaks the magic spell of the addictiveness algorithms that they had previously more-or-less perfected. So people just log off or disengage. Not entirely, of course, but it’s more fragile than was thought.
The big corps had everything nailed down, but the rate of profit declined and they ‘had’ to respond, leading to the current mess. The execs are flailing under the contradictions.
It’s just shitty site design
I agree with the sentiment but I’d suggest that it’s on purpose. It’s not shitty by accident. It’s shitty so that / because it performs the functions that the owners want it to perform.
Imagine being paid and knowing web design just to do this! If it ain’t broken don’t fix it, it was already perfected and they had to ruin it.
It would be like working at Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Sony, Samsung, Disney, Amazon, and a few other places lol