Is YouTube as good as it was a decade ago?

[bigslab]

better

worse

equally good

[Levin]

Well there was a lot of censorship during convid.

The adverts are infuriating. I don't get why they don't charge more to have one big advert at the start of the video rather than peppering in adverts every 30 seconds. It makes the video unwatchable. I don't think people are averse to reasonable advertisement, but the past year or so has clearly been about trying to scrape up every last bit of revenue to shareholders, with no concern to the user experience.

[Lynx122]

Hmm I don't know for a while it got bad but right now I think it's alright. You just need to find the right content.

[mementomorii-]

YouTube used to be much better.

[FunkyMonkee]

MUCH worse!! Up until about 2 years ago, I never got ANY ads in the videos! All of a sudden I started getting one at the start or the end. Then it was one several times in one video, about every 5 or 10 minutes. Then it was one every 4 minutes!! Now, it's 2 or 3 every 4:00!! And at least one of them is FORCED on you! I mean, you have No option to skip it after 5 seconds! Yesterday, I started watching a long video, about 10 seconds in, I got an add. I got the video back and another 30 seconds later, I got another ad! The video came back and 5 seconds later, I got ANOTHER ad!! i decided to just DL the video and watch it ad-free!!
The worst ads are those fucking video game ads! WHO COMES UP WITH THIS STUPID SHIT? A line of midgets stands in from of some full-grown broad who either absorbs them one at a time and each one steps up to take his turn to be absorbed or they spot a poisonous mushroom, eat it and the roots of the tree she is part of absorb him then, the next guy steps up, the next mushroom grows, he eats it, dies and she absorbs him!! WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT of these incredibly stupid midgets!!

[NathanDavis]

browsers have built-in ad blockers now...

[exitseven]

It looks the same to me.