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so many ways 2 avoid getting personalized garbage results, and yet
I remember for a minute YouTube search was better than Google search. Now they’re both horrible
Censorship does retarded shit to things.
It’s not censorship. It’s just what happens to any platform run by a publicly traded company whose customers are the advertisers and whose users are the product.
but I don’t understand, how does having shitty search help improve advertiser revenue
In a word, Enshittification. The original Cory Doctorow article explaining it
I know the general term, but I don’t see how in this case still. On somewhere like amazon, there’s a clear incentive to have bad search, initially to capture sellers, then later to force them to pay to be high in search results, but youtube has no such program. You can’t pay to be higher in search results.
They did change the algorithm to censor results in google search and now YouTube has also been censored.
I can search for the litteral title in quotes and not find it. Have to ise duckduck go smh
I was trying to search for something inside a specific channel the other day. The results were so random that I wasn’t confident I was even seeing all of the videos that had the word I typed in. Doesn’t help that it’s full on chaos sort with no option of any other sorting method. Complete trash.
It’s not like they’re part of a company whose core product is search.
Their core product is advertising.
Searching/surfing YouTube is like searching/surfing Imgur. It’s a site for content hosting so you can link from other places. You have to go to online communities to find links to good videos.
There are good channels that are worth subscribing to, but going to YouTube directly is like trudging though a swamp.
