I thought 15 unskippable ads were bad, but that was the tip of the iceberg. Now they’re 30-45 seconds unskippable, and they aren’t even ads anymore. I’m getting full on hour long podcasts spliced into the middle of videos now.
The Search is damn near useless now because when you look something up, you get a wall of unrelated YT shorts and “People also searched” reccs instead of what you asked for.
Israel ads are of course unskippable and even if they were, they’re quite frequent and just blasting nonsense right into your face. None of this is even getting into the use of AI to decide whether or not you’re even allowed to have an account
This is both not fucking sustainable and the soulless capitalist model isn’t going anywhere because it’s so profitable. I have no idea how this is going to end but I hope a new platform comes along soon that actually works and isn’t immediately set upon by right wing losers.
Lol I have something like 5 different plugins to try and make YouTube bearable and custom again. If you have your language set to anything other than English it will do auto dubbing without asking you which is a good idea in theory but not when you don’t need it.
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Some of these overlap but the features from one don’t necessarily work, that’s why you need both. For example don’t use the ad blocker from Improve Youtube, you’ll only get a popup to disable your ad block. Use ublock.
It also does this for some languages if you mark not english, I was watching some none English channels with good subs, and I cant anymore
The only way to escape the stupid AI auto dubbing, on mobile at least since on desktop I don’t seem to have this issue, is to spoof your device’s signature to some apple tv box or whatever it’s called. Titles unfortunately still get translated sometimes, and it seems that creators themselves have to turn it that off.