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10 things I hate about YouTube

If this duckduckgo site becomes too popular it's going to become as censored as Google lol.

If I liked a channel so much I'd subscribe. I don't need to be reminded several times. (I'm speaking for everyone else, as I don't actually subscribe to anything because I hate being bombarded with notifications).
 
One thing that I've never seen anyone mention before is that there is no true feature to block channels on youtube. I'd like to block a lot of channels so that when I search something I don't have to scroll far down to get rid of these popular channels that I don't care about. I know you can block things from being recommended to you but that's different. I want to be able to find videos and not be bombarded by channels I don't want that upload every 24 hours.
 
Kisa the tea said:
One thing that I've never seen anyone mention before is that there is no true feature to block channels on youtube. I'd like to block a lot of channels so that when I search something I don't have to scroll far down to get rid of these popular channels that I don't care about. I know you can block things from being recommended to you but that's different. I want to be able to find videos and not be bombarded by channels I don't want that upload every 24 hours.
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Methodologies claiming to circumvent YouTube/Google's algorithms do exist, but whether they actually work and to what degree to one's satisfaction is anyone's guess. Though I suspect this may not really go beyond merely blocking channels. Check it out...

Though frankly I can't imagine entities like Google or YouTube ever giving consumers what they really want. That would constrain so many marketing pitches...like a grocery store unable to relocate their goods to force shoppers to look at things they normally might not even bother with. And thus keep you in the store far longer than you intended. A practice which I personally loathe.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-turn-off-youtube-algorithm/
 
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Au Naturel said:
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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It's just a rant, or a discussion. I'm not looking for advice or prevention.
 
Misery said:
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.
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Yeah they get addicted like hell to Facebook and Instagram and never do anything else. Pity so fun without them.

I miss landline phones, cell phones can cause brain cancer probably.

Yeah I do not understand modern tvs that much. They have strange menus and they are hard to navigate.
 
Oh, I missed something out. I hate the reactions, that seem to have become quite popular on YouTube. You know, the videos of a person in a little window in the corner reacting to things in a video.
 
Misty Avich said:
Oh, I missed something out. I hate the reactions, that seem to have become quite popular on YouTube. You know, the videos of a person in a little window in the corner reacting to things in a video.
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As a general rule I hate anything that is focused on people's faces and people talking. I can't hear half of what they're saying anyway and their overexcited tones wear me out.

I love subtitles.
 
Misty Avich said:
If this duckduckgo site becomes too popular it's going to become as censored as Google lol.

If I liked a channel so much I'd subscribe. I don't need to be reminded several times. (I'm speaking for everyone else, as I don't actually subscribe to anything because I hate being bombarded with notifications).
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You can subscribe without getting notifications. Click on the bell symbol and opt for no notifications.

Some people rely on subscription numbers for income.

It wouldn’t do anything to inconvenience you if your notifications were off.
 
I don't like the subtitles on YouTube because they seem to be guessed, often very inaccurately.
I always use subtitles when I watch DVDs, except the few awkward DVDs that don't have subtitles.
 
Misty Avich said:
I don't like the subtitles on YouTube because they seem to be guessed, often very inaccurately.
I always use subtitles when I watch DVDs, except the few awkward DVDs that don't have subtitles.
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It depends on the video.

If you see the words for the subtitles being generated one at a time as the person talks, with it occasionally "scrolling" to another line, that's automatically generated.

But if entire sentences just kinda pop onto the screen all at once, that is manually created. It's up to the video creator to do that though.

Misty Avich said:
Oh, I missed something out. I hate the reactions, that seem to have become quite popular on YouTube. You know, the videos of a person in a little window in the corner reacting to things in a video.
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Oh yeah, I dont like this either.

But, it depends on the person, and on what they're "reacting" to. Like, there's a couple of gaming channels I'm following now that cover things related to certain big games/whatever I follow, and they'll sometimes do "reactions" to updates & patch notes for said games, but it's not the "OMG GOTTA LOOK SHOCKED" sort of reactions. It's the person being like "Okay, so let's go through these one by one and I'll give my thoughts on them and help you guys understand them a bit better".

Which is a very far cry from the irritating "OMG LOOK AT THIS OBVIOUSLY FAKED VIDEO OF MARS TURNING INTO A DONKEY" sort of thing. And it always has the "oh wow so surprised" face on the thumbnail. Why THAT kind of thing is popular, I'll never know.
 
Misery said:
It depends on the video.

If you see the words for the subtitles being generated one at a time as the person talks, with it occasionally "scrolling" to another line, that's automatically generated.

But if entire sentences just kinda pop onto the screen all at once, that is manually created. It's up to the video creator to do that though.



Oh yeah, I dont like this either.

But, it depends on the person, and on what they're "reacting" to. Like, there's a couple of gaming channels I'm following now that cover things related to certain big games/whatever I follow, and they'll sometimes do "reactions" to updates & patch notes for said games, but it's not the "OMG GOTTA LOOK SHOCKED" sort of reactions. It's the person being like "Okay, so let's go through these one by one and I'll give my thoughts on them and help you guys understand them a bit better".

Which is a very far cry from the irritating "OMG LOOK AT THIS OBVIOUSLY FAKED VIDEO OF MARS TURNING INTO A DONKEY" sort of thing. And it always has the "oh wow so surprised" face on the thumbnail. Why THAT kind of thing is popular, I'll never know.
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Oh yes, I agree, I don't mind the reactions if they're useful. Also I love the movie reviews. But I hate the reactions like some guy in the corner of the screen going "ah! Agh! Oh, man, oh my God, agh!" Like what is the point?
 
I was on YouTube before all the ads. I miss when there were no ads on it. Also the fact that we can’t decorate our pages now is really sad. Everything looks so plain
 
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