Back in my day, YouTube had a 5-star rating system
And the video’s rating was plainly visible so you could use it to make the decision whether the video was even worth your click.
The shovelware AI slop video channels wouldn’t be such a problem today if we still had that.
I never get those because I never watch them.
and search results showed only videos related to your search. recommendations on the side were similar videos and not some unrelated bullshit. it was so much better.
Honestly if someone remade an old YouTube alternative I think it would take off.
It’s what I wish PeerTube was, but I’m not sure if that will ever take off sadly.
Lack of advertising dollars is definitely an impediment to video platform alternatives…
I remember a time when people just posted silly little shitty drawn videos just for the fun of it. Not saying creators shouldn’t be compensated for their hard work, I just feel like something was lost with the monetization of every little thing.
The trouble is hosting that much video content and the bandwidth to feed viewers.
People really fail to understand what a truly colossal undertaking a site like YouTube is. It’s a technological wonder that they are able to process that much data and serve it so efficiently. Hate YouTube all you want, I do, but the engineers at Google are fucking magicians.
Last I heard it was something on the order of 700 hours of video content uploaded per minute. Insane.
Maybe when the AI bubble bursts, people will buy up abandoned data centers for pennies on the dollar and repurpose them for a better Youtube alternative. And maybe Margot Robbie will see this comment and fall in love with me.
Recommendations on the side today are related to everything you’ve watched in like the last week or so.
Which I really hate, because it means when you get into some specific interest, YouTube basically stops showing you anything else.
Hey YouTube! Those interests I was into last week, last month, I’m still into them! Please don’t railroad me like that!
You’ll watch that sponsored content and you’ll like it. Because you can’t dislike it.
google is absolute worst
Back in my day, memes weren’t Ai “enhanced” and Bart didn’t have a vagina for an ear.
What is going on with that vaginear anyway? And the random grass rectangle.
new darwinism dropped: survive of the vaginear-en-ist
You sweet summer child, back in my day YouTube had a five star rating system and video response functionality.
Gotta say, don’t miss video responses. It was nearly all irrelevant content and people trying to advertise their own channels
Perfectly true. It would’ve been nice, if it wasn’t so inherently abusable. We can’t have nice things.
no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?
I don’t want my watchlist stored on a random third party server
What’s the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?
To save you time avoiding a bad instructional video.
It’s more complicated than that. The button still exists even without the add-on and the back end factors it in and I think shows the creator, but doesn’t show it to the front end. So the add-on doesn’t have the real numbers but there still are real numbers
It’s a good enough approximation. Do you really need to know if the massively downvoted video had 357,923 downvotes or 357,924?
There are dozens of us
All I want these days is a “Don’t show me any fucking AI slop” setting and a button to report AI slop.
Tidal has a no-AI button, if it helps. They’ve just introduced it. That’s music taken care of, I guess. It’s something.
YouTube is letting people mark their videos as AI or not AI and I assume doing nothing with it? I think I’ve stumbled upon an AI video or two on YouTube but I didn’t see any labels?
EDIT: Oh, fuck, are they just asking us to label our videos “non-AI” so they don’t train their own AI on AI slop? Fuck.
Then turn the button into some kind of cookie-clicker type game, because it will be being used a lot!
It still does, it just doesn’t show numbers because YouTube is a coward.
No the API is dead. The extension everyone is using calculates their own dislike number by inferring from the extension users who disliked the video
But the button is still there.
Afaik it’s only for the YT-Studio backend, so creators can see the dislikes but there is no public access to that data
did you not read the comment?
But the button is still there…
I meant that while the button is still there the Data is only available for the uploader via the Studio backend. The public API is dead, wich I omitted in the original comment for simplicity
And ops post is about the button being removed. Which is false.
How is:
the Data is only available for the uploader via the Studio backend.
different from:
it just doesn’t show numbers because YouTube is a coward.
?
You were more technical than the top level comment and framed it as a disagreement.
Because the second can implies the data is still available but not displayed. I wanted to specify that the data isn’t available (for the public). I don’t disagree with the top per se but wanted to clear up the ambiguity
How is this different from the comment you disagreed with?
back in my day, you posted about your life in your geocities website! And you wrote the html on notepad and had to include an animated gif that told people to email you, cause that was the style at the time.
Some people still do on Neocities
nowai
Yahweh
Also, you tied an onion to your belt.
If you had Office you could use Microsoft Office FrontPage
I wrote HTML in EDIT, but my first webserver ran on an OpenVMS Alpha workstation.
And this meme wasn’t AI upscaled
Ah, I remember when you paused and the whole video was buffering. You could have multiple tabs open and watch the video when it was done. No matter what kind of connection you had, you could simply wait for the video to finish downloading in the background and watch it without problems.
No ads, a 5-star rating system, 100% buffering, and mostly enthusiasts posting, no profit-driven incentives. We didn’t know how good we had it.
I hate the way YouTube now gives millions of dollars to people exploiting children watching videos - be it slop factories or ‘influencer’ preying on their insecurities.
In a just society YouTube would have been destroyed as a pseudo-monopoly ages ago.
I watched so much illegally uploaded anime on old YouTube/Dailymotion… those were the days
It still does.
Not in shorts anymore.
We’re all being punished because Google’s feelings got hurt when we didn’t like the 2018 YouTube Rewind enough. That was the end of the dislike button and the YouTube Rewind altogether.
Back in my day, you could customize your YouTube profile and PM anyone on the platform
I miss being able to tell people they suck with just one click
Return youtube dislike extension.
I’ve never blocked as many channels as now after they removed the dislike button on the shorts section.
