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.
On Android you can just use a native client like PipePipe. It doesn’t show you ads, you can turn off recommendations and even subscribe to accounts without logging in.
I just use Firefox with uBlock origin, on Ubuntu and Android. No ads for me.
Also get sponsorblock so you can skip annoying sponsorship sections.
NewPipe is the OG but it freezes for 5 seconds before you download the media tho. Still I use it every day. You don’t need an account.