I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.
I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.
Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?
It’s still pretty shitty even with. Can’t search for shit, 5 items down they’re showing you completely different results from what you searched for.
Protip: Search youtube with bing, you can even watch the video within the bing page so you don’t get all the youtube UI spam, and since its bing, it doesn’t have a vested interest in forcing you to watch what google wants you to watch.
Gotta keep you addicted to the content they know will steal your attention.
Psychological dopamine abuse.