quality of content that I've been seeing on YouTube in my feed has decreased or I have gotten bored. but either way I have made a point to stop visiting that website as much as possible

I need to get back into reading. my ability to maintain focus has deteriorated so severely in recent years that I can't even play a stupid video game anymore

The enshittification will continue until.. No man, it'll just continue.

PeerTube has entered the chat

For me it isn't the length, but the frequency that is bothering me. It's insain, it's like every 3-5 mins depending on the video length. It's unusable atleast in my case. Only watching from devices I have adblocker on now. Not my phone.

Don't forget to use ublock and adguard !

Family member spends all day every day recording and editing videos for youtube. Never finds an audience. Never gets promoted. The service is too busy pushing AI slop. All that video storage for the long tail of content with almost no views must cost a fortune. Meanwhile big quality youtubers seem to not be growing for some time like they have hit a ceiling. I think Youtube has been in decline for some time. Instead of fix it, which would require investment and ideas, I think they pull the usual bad US MBA style management practice and attempt to maximise revenues on the way down until they finally kill it.

The day ad block stops working is the day I stop using sites with ads

LOL

At this point it would be smart to simply hook up any old pc to your tv and watch in the browser.

$10 a month and no ads.

I have not bothered with YouTube since ads and the stupidity at volume kicked in. So glad I am not trapped into it. Video content has a place but it’s bloated and predatory thanks to clickbait and monetisation. For that reason the good content gets lost/shunned on my behalf.

i'm seriously amazed by many people's ability to ignore and withstand those annoying ads lmao. even a tiny banner on some website is enough to trigger me to create a new ublock filter...

If the ads starts running too long I just hit the back button or close the window and go look for something else to watch.

I just restart the video ~5 times until it starts without ads. I figure even if it takes extra effort and time if I don't know what's being advertised then I win.