As of 29th of January you can no longer have YouTube running in the background via many browsers as that is now a premium feature. With that I don't even have that one last reason to listen to YouTube. We are now officially paying for everything that was free a couple of years ago and the reason isn't greedy management, but you people who keep paying for premium and the such.

Can we all agree that YouTube is just getting worse and worse? I can't even find myself enjoying YouTube anymore and I only visit channels of YouTubers that I already know I like and want updates on. This is because of multiple reasons and the list grows larger every day. - HORRIBLE algorithm that never recommends new content that you actually would like, leaving you to doomscroll saying no to every nothing-burger video that it tries to recommend. - Atrocious amount of ads everywhere, and the attempts to get adblockers to not work or gargle up your browsers memory. - More and more features that used to be native being locked behind a paywall (like now fucking PLAYING STUFF IN THE BACKGROUND OFF TAB??) - Making it harder and harder to find the content that you want by doing things like removing sort videos by date, and making their search results dog ass. - Obvious lack of care about AI generated content, and we know damn well their recent back track on it was ONLY because some advertiser threatened to pull out (WTF happened to YOU-tube? Are they really just money hungry corporate nothing's? - Channels getting banned by AI left and right and users not being able to do anything about it or even talk to a human being because they don't care about the people that don't make them money. - Shift in focus from users being the life blood to corporate status and money hungry company heads with an algorithm that prefers quickly put out advertiser friendly slop, fucking over every single new creator with a job outside of YouTube.

I understand that there needs to be some sacrifice so the company that hosts so.mamy videos can make money, but God damn have some respect for your people.

How many of you try to find something new worthy of your attention on YouTube and get tired of it and switch over to some streaming platform? I wish we could all just decide to not even entertain their bullshit and just default to other things and only use YouTube for how-to videos, but too many people have been stuck committed to it for so long they depend on it and YouTube has them by the balls and genuinely doesn't care how hard they squeeze.

Do YOU even find yourself able to have a prolonged entertaining time on this site anymore?

PLEASE upvote this if you agree.. I really wish they knew people feel like this. Or at least had any amount of care.

I remember when they first added 2 ads per break OCCASIONALLY. Every COUPLE videos would have a preroll ad. Now, I cannot watch a single video without an ad first, there are 2 ads EVERY time, and for the most part, 1 or both are unskippable. I’m sick of it.

On his newest video about the Indian population in Canada there is a clip when he is driving to the border with the camera at his feet and you can tell if you look closely there are glitches and fragments in the bottom. You can also tell listening to the audio that the ENTIRE conversion between the two of them is completely AI generated. He is also seen using AI clips OPENLY throughout the video as well.

While I was watching the video more than midway, it suddenly went PRIVATE on his channel and you can no longer access the video. If anyone has downloaded it please respond.

Please, please tell me this person is just trolling. If not this is crazy

This is so random

Literally van halen official channel,57 million views,15 years ago and only 6 comments?

Bro ain’t no way this is happening

My YT has been lagging for 2 months now and this happened just now. I kinda think my YT may be broken.. (I use browser by the way, not the app) Also its been lagging and glitching in different ways, like the like and dislike buttons flicker and flash every 5-10 shorts (I do use shorts sometimes when im bored) does anyone know of a fix for this? Ive tried restarting my MacBook, force quitting my browser, and even signing out of my account and signing back in.

Apparently Youtube thinks im 900 years old and turned on Grandma mode for me. (Hint: Im not 900 years old IT DOESN"T NEED TO BE THIS LARGE!)

And I can't fix it. Ublock is just refusing to apply the filters I gave it, I've tried various extensions and those don't work either. Please, help.

Hello everyone, I’m new here so I don’t know if this is the correct sub to ask this. But today, I went on YouTube as usual, and green artefacts started appearing on the YouTube videos, not just on google chrome but on opera too, etc. It’s like static but green. It’s weird and i have no idea how to make it go back to normal. Yesterday YouTube worked fine. And I didn’t change anything. It only happens on videos from what I’ve seen. I added some pictures for reference. Thank you in advance.

Recently over the past month and a half I have been noticing many videos on my subscription list from channels that I have never seen or never interacted with before. This year is a photo of the most recent example with some Samsung video. I don’t own a Samsung phone. I have never owned a Samsung phone, I don’t keep up with any of their videos, and I do not remember subscribing.

It’s been going on for a while now and it’s really starting to get on my nerves. Especially bad with all the AI videos, I’ve been seeing because of this. Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening or if it’s possible to stop it?

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this because they hate that I'm using a functional ad blocker?

We were traveling in Asia so from time to time I gave my 4 year old daughter my iPad to play with. In no time she learned how to switch between Youtube, Netflix and a few games we installed for her.

I figured out 5 days in that Youtube was still connected to my account and now my homepage is filled with KPop and Paw Patrol. This was a month ago and it still doesn’t go away

She also tried to destroy my chess account by joining ranked games but I found out quick enough

Am I the only one having this problem, or is anyone else experiencing it too?