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I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was "Nick Swardson loitering". There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it's come to? Ads are more important than what I'm actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aside from adblocking making youtube actually usable, there's been such a notorious increase in enforcement of DRM.

I couldn't watch jack anything related to Olympics because NBC got youtube to spam remove practically any footage, as if I'm going to spend cash money on their shitty streaming platform to find a 30 second clip. Same thing for any ICC highlights. Only 360p widened 2 minute videos get past the filter.

Almost no such thing as public replays, clips, montages, or highlights anymore. It all gets boxed up in some corporate ownership, never to be seen again aside from the live footage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

funnily enough I was able to watch olympic replays on one of my city's (Hong Kong) official broadcast YouTube channels, specifically HOY TV, but all the commentary is in cantonese. But it's also region locked (I just tested it by trying a US VPN) so you need a VPN to a Hong Kong server.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Google knows the answer to this is: "What else are you going to use, Dailymotion?"

Which is why they're a monopoly.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Make it 85% and show ads for anti-seizure medicine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Same as Google results, they've decided we can't choose for ourselves and are now going to curated results.

Rumble and Yahoo are far better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LibreY, search and get the results you asked for. You're welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's "monetizing the user base" in corpo speak

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (7 children)

i tried to find a clip of that olympics break dancing thing a week or two ago.

It was fucking impossible. I literally couldn't find shit, it was all AI generated videos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

thank god for piracy, finally i know what people were fucking talking about

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is to be expected, Google does the same thing with their search engine; delay providing the most accurate and related results in order to get users to see more ads per search.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

i have adblock so they arent even getting any money

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That one is a Olympic copyright issue. Either NBC since they pay so much for the rights or the IOC flag videos immediately so all your left with is low quality videos.

It genuinely ruins trying to find Olympics content if NBC doesn't cover that specific event

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

why would you ever copyright video clips of the olympics though, nobody fucking pays for cable or has time to watch streams. And we're also only talking about like 2 minutes worth of content, I'm pretty certain that would be fair use.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What happened is that you forgot to install an ad blocker.

edit ad blocker won't help here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is not ad-blocking related. The search results on YouTube are literal trash and there's nothing we can do about it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yes, but their results are trash now. shows you 5 results, then 10 or things you've probably already seen completely unrelated to the search, then random "trending" garbage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is a neat Firefox addon which makes visits to yubbtub more tolerable by getting rid of unrelated suggestions:
RYS — Remove YouTube Suggestions

It has a lot of options to tailor it to your needs.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

I caved and subscribed during the 2020 elections. Got tired of seeing two old dipshits yell at each other in ads. Actually enjoyed it enough to keep paying $12 a month.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

YouTube is broke, but it was also deliberately punishing you for looking up Nick swardson I think?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago
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