Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    2 days ago

    I don’t even mind view count, but why would they even remove upload date? That’s the only way to know whether the video is new or not.

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        16 hours ago

        Always happy to see “11 years old” video randomly pops up too, and i’ll know immediately it’s a fine wine.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
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        Yeah, particularly great when i want to see some creators take/analysis/lecture on recent events, that are subject to daily changes.

        Great way to muddy the water for people following the war in Ukraine.

    • trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Youtube wants to own what you watch. Thats why they pivot so hard from showing you the subscriber list first and want to bank on their own algorithm to choose what you see.

      Once they do, they have a captured audience of millions they get to choose what you think, buy, see ads for and become addicted too.

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      Most likely answer is that they do it for the same reason as Facebook not sorting their feed by date: they want users to fully rely on their algorithm. My completely uneducated guess is that they want to feed their users older videos where they don’t pay out as much to their creators as they do for new videos.

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      I guess they’re checking if it matters. There’s nothing that inherently making a video worse if it’s old. However I must admit that even I tend to think twice if a video is mulitpile years old

      • monsdar@infosec.pub
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        There’s a lot of videos where age matters. Looking for a Blender tutorial? Have fun skimming through them to find the right version.

        You want to see the highlights of yesterday’s soccer game? Here’s 5 times these teams played each other, try to find out what’s the right one.