Back in my day, YouTube had a 5-star rating system
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And the video's rating was plainly visible so you could use it to make the decision whether the video was even worth your click.
The shovelware AI slop video channels wouldn't be such a problem today if we still had that.
Going straight to YouTube is like going straight to Imgur looking for good content. Should never be done. Places like Lemmy or friend chat groups refer me to good videos. Or my curated subscribed channels with quality content is the other way I watch youtube.
Anyone going straight to YouTube.com looking for their algorithm and ratings system to tell them about shit content in advance is mistaken in their expectations.
extensive use of the "Don't recommend this video > Tell us why > I don't like this video" function, plus removing bad videos from my watch history after I stop watching, has got me a well-trained slop-free recommendations page with interesting new smallish channels.
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and search results showed only videos related to your search. recommendations on the side were similar videos and not some unrelated bullshit. it was so much better.
Honestly if someone remade an old YouTube alternative I think it would take off.
It’s what I wish PeerTube was, but I’m not sure if that will ever take off sadly.
Lack of advertising dollars is definitely an impediment to video platform alternatives…
I remember a time when people just posted silly little shitty drawn videos just for the fun of it. Not saying creators shouldn’t be compensated for their hard work, I just feel like something was lost with the monetization of every little thing.
The trouble is hosting that much video content and the bandwidth to feed viewers.
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google is absolute worst
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Back in my day, memes weren't Ai "enhanced" and Bart didn't have a vagina for an ear.
What is going on with that vaginear anyway? And the random grass rectangle.
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Hey man, they're raggin' on your vaginear!
I miss being able to tell people they suck with just one click
All I want these days is a "Don't show me any fucking AI slop" setting and a button to report AI slop.
Tidal has a no-AI button, if it helps. They've just introduced it. That's music taken care of, I guess. It's something.
YouTube is letting people mark their videos as AI or not AI and I assume doing nothing with it? I think I've stumbled upon an AI video or two on YouTube but I didn't see any labels?
EDIT: Oh, fuck, are they just asking us to label our videos "non-AI" so they don't train their own AI on AI slop? Fuck.
Then turn the button into some kind of cookie-clicker type game, because it will be being used a lot!
I've never blocked as many channels as now after they removed the dislike button on the shorts section.
It still does.
Not in shorts anymore.
no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?
I don’t want my watchlist stored on a random third party server
What's the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?
To save you time avoiding a bad instructional video.
It's a good enough approximation. Do you really need to know if the massively downvoted video had 357,923 downvotes or 357,924?
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It still does, it just doesn't show numbers because YouTube is a coward.
No the API is dead. The extension everyone is using calculates their own dislike number by inferring from the extension users who disliked the video
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They already removed it from Shorts. Give it a little time and it will be gone from the rest of the videos.
Not like you need another reason to not watch shorts.
What pushed me to use revanced some years ago.
back in my day, you posted about your life in your geocities website! And you wrote the html on notepad and had to include an animated gif that told people to email you, cause that was the style at the time.
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Back in my day you only watched YouTube videos for tutorials on how to do stuff.
Back in my day, you could customize your YouTube profile and PM anyone on the platform
YouTube used to not have ads.
YouTube has ads?
#uBlock Origin
May I nicely suggest AdNauseam instead? It poisons the well of advertising.
We're all being punished because Google's feelings got hurt when we didn't like the 2018 YouTube Rewind enough. That was the end of the dislike button and the YouTube Rewind altogether.
The dislikes were great at telling me quickly if a tutorial was good or not.
Now you generally have to check the top comments to see if there's something wrong about the tutorial, but then YouTube started hiding those comments below ads/recommendations.
Now I just use GrayJay and I can quickly check comments for any video.
Return youtube dislike extension.
gvid.tv has a downvote button. And it actually does something useful.
back in my day it was kinda easy to find interesting content
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