People need to realise that all this AB testing is going to lead YouTube developers to one final version: An endless TikTok style scroll of (soon to be AI-generated) recommended videos.
No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going to go away.
You can see this happening already with the inability to permanently disable “shorts”. They can only be disabled for 30 days. You can see this happening when unrelated recommendations appear in search results. You can see this happening with the inability to block a channel, you can only stop it appearing in recommendations. It’s only going to keep getting worse.
Get off YouTube (and especially get your kids off the platform) and find alternatives. It’s not going to end well.
I concur. Aside from user hostility, these purely algorithmic feeds with no search, mid-video snap-cut ads, and blink-attention-span content is retarding reasoning skills and already having a negative gestalt effect on society.
For, perhaps only once in multiple generations, all the "old folks" raging against "the kids" with their new media are correct.
More and more, the movie "Idiocracy" is becoming a documentary.
No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going to go away.
You can see this happening already with the inability to permanently disable “shorts”. They can only be disabled for 30 days. You can see this happening when unrelated recommendations appear in search results. You can see this happening with the inability to block a channel, you can only stop it appearing in recommendations. It’s only going to keep getting worse.
Get off YouTube (and especially get your kids off the platform) and find alternatives. It’s not going to end well.