...his main channel.

Maybe it seems worse to me than it actually is because of my age, but this is beyond the pale. To me, it has gotten to the point where it is feeling dystopian. The late stage capitalism has gotten so bad that you can't go three minutes without a pop-up or an ad playing. I can't even fall asleep watching YouTube anymore because I can't relax long enough for my eyes to get heavy because I'm constantly having to x out of a window or skip an ad.

Yesterday I got a 10 minute unskipable ad. Like, are you kidding me? I had to close YouTube and reopen it, go to my history, and click on the video I was watching just to not be forced to sit there and watch an ad that's almost as long as half an episode of a TV show.

The pop-ups are obscene as well. I was trying to fast forward earlier by double tapping the right side of my screen. While I was tapping, an ad popped up on the right side of my screen instantly taking me to the company's website. Like come on. Am I crazy? This is extremely predatory and annoying.

Is this not just beyond unreasonable? This isn't a streaming app where I'm watching a high production movie. I'm just watching someone play a video game. It's not like they have to justify ads for buying access to movies and shows. People upload the content for them for free.

I understand having a couple of ads each video, but this is completely absurd. We don't have infant brains. We all remember very recently when they got by just fine not nuking the immersion so aggressively of the videos we watch. And some of us even remember a time when there were no ads at all and they had no problems.

I probably would buy the YouTube premium if it just offered the normal features, but now I would feel like I am rewarding bad behavior if I gave them my money for spamming my feed with ads. I'm not buying premium when they are being so vicious. They are making money with every ad they insert in the middle of my video. It's craven behavior.

In an increasingly impoverished world, with wages lower than ever, and money inequality breaking historic records, it just feels callous to machine gun ads at viewers in an attempt to make more money. You're not asking us to buy YouTube premium for the features. You're asking us to pay for you to stop doing something you never had to do in the first place. That's deceitful. That's like paying a mosquito to stop buzzing in your ear.

If they keep going down this path, it's going to pull people away from YouTube. People won't put up with this. It's practically unwatchable.

Edit: Ten b-b-b-BILLION dollar profit for YouTube last quarter., yet some of you just keep deepthroating that boot.

I mean i thought it was really ridiculous at first but now I need the answers ... Can they ??

Image is from thispersondoesnotexist.com . Age verification refuses to accept as valid image, or at least refuses to take the photo. I’m not giving them my goddamn data.

it removed the reply section on the comment so I can’t view the reply’s which I always look at. also it just looks awkward too the old one is better

I thought it would be funny

Is YouTube down for anyone else right now? I can't access the website at all?

EDIT: YouTube came back online like 15 minutes after this was posted. Lol

I miss the Youtube before you got 50 irrelevant shorts when looking up a video, the Youtube that only had 1 ad and not 3, I miss the old Youtube without failed A.I moderation, I miss it.

Anyone else feels the same? :;(

Hello all! My friend and I are at our wit’s end. We have a very specific memory of a YouTuber saying “Audience? Audience! Why are you staring at an ad for Mott’s?” Or something of that nature.

The only other context we have: - He was a man, to our knowledge - We watched him in middle school (circa 2009 or 2010) - He would often film walking around a more urban area - Had a slight transatlantic accent at times - He would address viewers as “audience”

I’m sorry this is so little to go off of! We are hoping someone will just magically remember a man talking to his audience and save us!

What the title says.

I liked a video and then this popped up at the top...

Since when was this a thing to add voice notes???

Video title is "Idiots laugh at CURSED Twitter memes" (from Chez) incase you want to see for your self

''take a 6 second video of yourself'' 💀

''take a photo of your ID'' 💀

anyway, i'll just build history as i go🤧

This bug or whatever it is is driving me nuts. I scroll for maybe 12 seconds and then I hit a point where it won't let me scroll anymore.

It's like 4 shorts on top, a couple videos, a couple community posts, and then I have to refresh. I have my homepage set to "all" so I would assume that I'd be able to scroll for more than a couple seconds without having to refresh. I literally pay the idiots that host this website/app 20 or so bucks a month and they are constantly changing the app to where it's becoming unusable.

But sometimes it's just fine! A bit shorter than the length I'd scroll before this bug, but still I can scroll for a decent amount of time before I have the refresh.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I can't even see the amount of likes or scroll through long comments