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People keep saying (and corpos keep believing) that normies will just "get used to the ads or pay a premium"
But everybody has a breaking point. People who already dislike it have left chrome or are in the rush to leave. Once people reach this point, they will start asking their more tech savvy friends or the Internet for a better way.
I honestly hope Google will not change its trajectory because sooner or later, people will get fed up with their bullshit.
I paid for YouTube premium for quite a while but cancelled because it wouldn't stop recommending the same video I've "not interested" for too many times, and also for pushing far right propaganda and pseudo science when all I watch is gaming related content and some space and engineering content.
Browsing the Internet without add blockers literally breaks the pages and makes one vulnerable to malware.
Would you like to rewatch this video you already watched? i even removed the fact it has been previously played?
No? How about now? Or now?
Sometimes youtube's recommendations are excellent, serving interesting woodworking or tech videos, other time it just shovels me the same drivel over and over.
My current feed is 4 videos that I've already watched completely and the red bar is still full, but I get a lot of already watched videos where the bar resets as well. Then it's a bunch of videos from 14 years ago. These old videos started appearing earlier this year and I get a lot of them since, besides clicking 'No Interest'
Then there's one or two videos that have been there for months in my feed that I'm afraid to dismiss because I like the general topic just don't have interest in these particular videos.
And then from time to time it it shines for a day or two and I get interesting stuff that disappears as quick as it came.
One thing it's getting better at recently is showing me long videos that are over an hour instead of the under 15 minute ones.
Yes, I like the direction Google is going. More people need to favor non-profit software.