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10 things I hate about YouTube

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Misty Avich

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1. Ads (yes I know I can apparently get free ad block without any catch but everyone who has shown me a YouTube video from their phone has had to wait for one or two ads to finish, with a disgruntled sigh, before showing the video, so if an ad block was so free and easy then everyone would be having it and nobody would ever be bothered by ads again)

2. When you want a video that tells interesting facts so that you can doze to, but all that comes up are videos that are too short, or have words but no narrator reading them out, or some American mumbling with poor sound quality, or two Americans rambling over each other and bantering stupid jokes to each other instead (sorry but some American accents sound like they're speaking intensively in cursive writing), or the background music is louder than the narration, or someone doing an ASMR where they're WHISPERING the facts...I could go on lol

3. When you go to YouTube to look for free audiobooks but the ones you want are just of someone reading out the audiobook themselves, and I know they mean well but it's really not the same as the real audiobook

4. When the assholes that run YouTube remove your favourite videos just because of copyright crap even though you can't get the videos on TV or DVD, so you never get to watch them again. If they did bring it out on DVD then I sure would buy it

5. Clickbait, where the thumbnail picture looks really thrilling but isn't shown anywhere in the video

6. Screamers. As a person with anxiety I can suffer with my nerves and I can do without scary faces jumping out unexpectedly at me on my phone screen

7. The child protection thing, where if you're watching a video with children in it pauses when you go back to scroll instead of carrying on, and sometimes I like to still listen to a video while I'm scrolling through the original results (even with parental controls deactivated). I've never been sure what purpose this is trying to gain

8. Videos that have an age restriction just because it has a natural bodily function in it. Trust me, one time I tapped on a funny compilation of children's cartoon characters burping, and it was age restricted. What's with that?

9. When Youtube videos start off with several minutes of "don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe to my channel, add me on Instagram by clicking the link in the description, add your thoughts in the comments, blah blah blah". JUST GET ON WITH THE VIDEO WITHOUT ALL THIS VERBAL DIARRHEA!!

10. People who add random crap to a video, for example one time I saw an episode from a TV show that I really wanted to see but couldn't find it anywhere else, but the twit who posted the video was kind enough to add the SpongeBob theme music in the background throughout the whole video for absolutely no reason, even though the video I was watching had nothing to do with SpongeBob and I hate SpongeBob anyway


YouTube can be the most frustrating internet place ever. Anyone agree?
 
You've just made me so glad that I've never tried to access the internet on a phone. I'm also running Linux so I don't have to put up with half the rubbish that Windows users do either.

I also don't often do searches in Youtube itself, instead I use duckduckgo to search and click on videos from in there, you get just the video by itself without the youtube page. Very similar to what you get when you click on a youtube video in this forum.
 
Youtube to me is fine... if I have my extensions.

I mostly use PC, Windows. So I've got like multiple adblockers running at all times... NOTHING gets through, anywhere, ever... and I've got Sponsorblock running for Youtube specifically as well. That just outright jumps over things like sponsorship stuff, or the "SMASH THE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE" and whatnot. Just POP, and it's past those. No need for me to poke the ol' scroll bar.

I also learned that for videos that are like, my absolute most favorite ever, it really is best to just download them. Because you never know when they might be removed.

That being said, video removal is usually done for a reason. Copyright law isnt something that they as a company can just ignore. Granted, you do occasionally get people abusing the system to knock videos out, but that's not very common.

As for Youtube as a whole beyond that... eh. Honestly my issue is mostly just finding good stuff that isnt just the same stuff I've always already watched. Good content is hard to come by.


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You've just made me so glad that I've never tried to access the internet on a phone.
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Yeah I seriously dont know how anyone can put up with that for even a moment.

Like I have an iPhone and whatnot, but if I were to total up all of the time I've spent using the internet on it over many years, including Youtube, I doubt it'd be more than 10 minutes. Just a couple of SECONDS of trying to use the internet on the phone is enough to get me to launch the stupid thing at the wall (and that's why it has a case on it).

No adblock, no internet, as far as I'm concerned.

I do have adblockers on the iPad though, somehow.
 
Misery said:
Yeah I seriously dont know how anyone can put up with that for even a moment.
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Using duckduckgo to search for videos instead of searching in youtube as I mentioned above makes a massive difference. The google interface for this is crap, maybe it works better on a phone but I wouldn't know, on a big screen the DuckDuckGo interface is so much easier to use. And as I said, you get just the video by itself without the surrounding youtube page and no adverts.
 
This is why I use uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock on my laptop and Revanced Extended on my tablet (which also includes Sponsorbblock).

Don't get any adverts when watching videos and, while on mobile, I have complete freedom to download videos, play them in the background (great if you're just listening to something where you don't really need to see the video, like a videobook or people just telling stories), picture-in-picture, hell I'm pretty sure it allows me access to YouTube's dumb as hell higher bitrate 1080p thing that they got on some videos that they normally lock behind a YouTube Premium subscription. :smirk::smirk::smirk:

I don't use any of that on my phone though because I just don't really watch YouTube on my phone (and if I wanted to, I have a separate adblocker installed that also works with YouTube if you just share the video and open it in their own app, so it's a bit more complicated cuz Revanced is literally a modified YouTube app. Logged into my Google Account and everything, so I got all my subs, watch history, etc. But considering I only rarely watch videos on my phone, I'm not bothering installed Revanced and stuff on it)

Also just in general get an adblocker for your phone if you can, it genuinely makes browsing the web on mobile 1000000000 times better like goddamn you mean I can go on these websites without there suddenly being like 50 popups that bring my phone to a crawl and cover up the article I'm reading??? Amazing.
 
Misty Avich said:
1. Ads (yes I know I can apparently get free ad block without any catch but everyone who has shown me a YouTube video from their phone has had to wait for one or two ads to finish, with a disgruntled sigh, before showing the video, so if an ad block was so free and easy then everyone would be having it and nobody would ever be bothered by ads again)

2. When you want a video that tells interesting facts so that you can doze to, but all that comes up are videos that are too short, or have words but no narrator reading them out, or some American mumbling with poor sound quality, or two Americans rambling over each other and bantering stupid jokes to each other instead (sorry but some American accents sound like they're speaking intensively in cursive writing), or the background music is louder than the narration, or someone doing an ASMR where they're WHISPERING the facts...I could go on lol

3. When you go to YouTube to look for free audiobooks but the ones you want are just of someone reading out the audiobook themselves, and I know they mean well but it's really not the same as the real audiobook

4. When the assholes that run YouTube remove your favourite videos just because of copyright crap even though you can't get the videos on TV or DVD, so you never get to watch them again. If they did bring it out on DVD then I sure would buy it

5. Clickbait, where the thumbnail picture looks really thrilling but isn't shown anywhere in the video

6. Screamers. As a person with anxiety I can suffer with my nerves and I can do without scary faces jumping out unexpectedly at me on
Imy phone screen

7. The child protection thing, where if you're watching a video with children in it pauses when you go back to scroll instead of carrying on, and sometimes I like to still listen to a video while I'm scrolling through the original results (even with parental controls deactivated). I've never been sure what purpose this is trying to gain

8. Videos that have an age restriction just because it has a natural bodily function in it. Trust me, one time I tapped on a funny compilation of children's cartoon characters burping, and it was age restricted. What's with that?

9. When Youtube videos start off with several minutes of "don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe to my channel, add me on Instagram by clicking the link in the description, add your thoughts in the comments, blah blah blah". JUST GET ON WITH THE VIDEO WITHOUT ALL THIS VERBAL DIARRHEA!!

10. People who add random crap to a video, for example one time I saw an episode from a TV show that I really wanted to see but couldn't find it anywhere else, but the twit who posted the video was kind enough to add the SpongeBob theme music in the background throughout the whole video for absolutely no reason, even though the video I was watching had nothing to do with SpongeBob and I hate SpongeBob anyway


YouTube can be the most frustrating internet place ever. Anyone agree?
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I like YouTube because you can take time away and it is not addictive and you can find music videos and retro cartoons and things and sometimes things to help with trauma etc.
I do not watch any influencers
I hate Facebook and Instagram because they are addictive and people become so reliant on them.
I do not not like Netflix or stan etc..I watch free to air TV and dvds still. I find things to watch on free to air.
I read books these days and do not use my phone as much still a bit for games
 
I both love and hate it. I love it because I watch it far more than TV or streaming. It can be both useful as well as entertaining and artistic.

I hate it because it's a completely hypocritical money grubbing advertising sweat shop. Think of all the content creators that work for nothing or next to nothing in most all cases. Hypocritical because YT non-monetizes anything it sees fit to do so but still benefits from the content. It collects money like a greedy pimp but hides behind a bogus morality as if it's saintly and pure (ie the age restrictions) and profits that way as well.

It's like a greasy cigar chomping ticket master who makes money on the number of viewers of talent (the videos) and then tells the talent that they'll not get paid because the ticket master arbitrarily decides so.
 
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I never browse the web through a PC without:

* Ublock Origin
* Privacy Badger
* Dark Reader
* Duck Duck Go Go Privacy Essentials
 
Youtube drives me mad, too:
Presenters that talk too fast, or they take ages to get to the point and ramble on. Or there's no pause to the dialogue/monologue, so you get a wall of talk.
I can't tolerate special effects in videos such as flashes or flickering or quickly changing pictures. I give up or stop watching about 90% of videos in the first 30 seconds.
Some can be useful though: how to videos, for example.
 
Progster said:
I can't tolerate special effects in videos such as flashes or flickering or quickly changing pictures.
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That perfectly describes most adverts too, they drive me mental. That's why I started liking duckduckgo so much. Horrible name to have to type though. :)

Duckduckgo also doesn't do all the user tracking that google does and your search results are more likely to show what you're actually looking for as opposed to what google knows you bought last week.
 
Progster said:
Presenters that talk too fast, or they take ages to get to the point and ramble on.
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Good point. That's one that constantly irritates me. They talk a mile a minute forcing me to repeat whatever it was they said that I probably won't catch a second- or even third time!
 
Oh, and I especially dislike loud background music, and two or more presenters all talking over the top of each other. That's a definite no-no.
 
The whole reason I don't do TV or radio is because of the news presenters and the voice overs on adverts, they get me hyped up and stressed.
 
I'm a YouTube mod. The streets of YouTube are pretty fierce.
There's insane bullying and cliques.
The rules are so strict you can get strikes or demonitised for the slightest infraction.
 
You'll enjoy YouTube more if you accept it for what it is and not argue with it over what you want it to be. It's a screwdriver, not a hammer, not a drill, nor even a paintbrush. Most Youtubers are just trying to make a little money, and the like/subscribe/comment response is how they do it. Of course, they want to remind you of it. YouTube may be free to watch, but it is not free to produce. The little ads are why YouTube even exists.

I have an extension called "Enhancer for YouTube™" It skips the little ads. I usually set the speed to 1.25 because most Youtubers speak much more slowly than I can absorb. You could set it to .75 if you want. I don't have it on my phone, so I get hit with having to click skip ad after 5 seconds—no big deal.
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Find some tubers you like, subscribe to them, and only watch what's interesting. Don't sweat the small stuff.
 
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lovely_darlingprettybaby said:
I hate Facebook and Instagram because they are addictive and people become so reliant on them.
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Yeah, I don't like these either. I don't have accounts for them, wouldn't have any use for them... they seem strange to me. And people do indeed get sort "stuck" to them.

The funny part though is that this really confuses family and friends. I don't use social media, and I also dont really use phones, yet I'm still the main tech user in the family overall. High-end PCs, video games, virtual reality, every form of AI, drawing with Procreate on the iPad, the iPad in general, and my ultra-confusing fractal programs.

But a simple phone call? Hah, dont even bother, the thing is probably out of power or I dont know where it is. It seriously just never gets used. Certainly part of that is because it seems so engineered to use social media. Well, that and I really dont like phone calls or texting. I dont watch TV either, and cannot use/navigate the confusing mess that modern TV systems have become. I remember when there was like 70 channels and you'd just hit a couple of buttons on a very simple remote and boom, there you go. Now though, it sure aint like that. The TV system in this house is this incomprensible tangled mess of mystery boxes that do who knows what, with 3-4 separate remotes that have like a million buttons each. Why so many, and what do they do? I have no idea. It makes no sense.

I suppose that's part of why I use YouTube. Well, also the fact that I can't block commercials on TV. But I can block them on YouTube.
 
All I really hate is the YouTube "scholarship," driven by clicks instead of insight. Lots of people saying the same thing, without a unique slant. Plus, the frequent use of sex appeal to get clicks, whether it's an advice video or comedy sketch. It's sophistry with bigger boobs and more skin. Zzzzzz.
 
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