The video sharing site YouTube is way past its prime now. There are simply too many ads on there, too many fake users, too much clickbait.
The site could have been greatly improved by now but instead its all about maintaining the advertising revenue. The charm what made the site unique has been replaced with just dumping videos to get ad dollars and turning it into a more chaotic version of linear television. The quality videos or the passion behind it is getting worse and the interface experience is worse now.
YouTube has actually made the desktop version of the site worse than its mobile experience. While I understand there has been shift away from desktop viewing, sometimes I want to watch my laptop. Instead of having the same settings across devices, they have actually removed many features on the desktop version of the app. The biggest change is that they removed much of the ability to customize your playback settings on there. It is quite bare bones now.
YouTube needed competition in its early days.
Google has basically ruined the website. Just because a site gets billions of users doesn’t make it great. Sometimes the smallest website has the biggest impact on the culture in ways that are not yet seen.
YouTube used to have a motto: “Broadcast Yourself”. Now it is just the logo, it is hardly “You” anymore in the “Tube”.
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