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.

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.

google is absolute worst

I haven't experienced those days...

What is going on with that vaginear anyway? And the random grass rectangle.

Gotta say, don't miss video responses. It was nearly all irrelevant content and people trying to advertise their own channels

What's the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?

There are dozens of us

I had to get rid of it when it caused massive slowdowns for me. That's probably fixed by now...

yeah it works good enough for people who knows what's going on.

They already removed it from Shorts. Give it a little time and it will be gone from the rest of the videos.

I watched so much illegally uploaded anime on old YouTube/Dailymotion... those were the days

yeh. pepperidge farms members. "broadcast yourself" my ass

YouTube has ads?

#uBlock Origin

Some people still do on Neocities

Eh, back when GeoCities was still a thing, most people were too busy actually having a life to regularly post about it online. Since this was before smartphones, updating a social media profile was a lot more complicated and time-consuming.

Having an active social media profile back then was often a red flag that a person was more “talk” than “walk“.

I wrote HTML in EDIT, but my first webserver ran on an OpenVMS Alpha workstation.

Also, you tied an onion to your belt.

If you had Office you could use Microsoft Office FrontPage

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!

That's more of an issue with their algorithm. The thing I think most people here (myself included) miss is that they used to let you know the rating on videos before you clicked them so you could see whether a given video was decent or not and therefore whether or not you should bother with some clickbait BS or not

Man, influencers and looksmaxxing idiots are gonna starve if that happens. How we will know the world is turning into a fucking clown show without it???

I watch it all the time. There are a lot of really interesting niche channels run by enthusiasts who care about the content. I like how ordinary people can have a chance to build a following without having had to be green lit by suits in a boardroom first. Plenty of garbage too, but still plenty worth watching.

Also good for sports highlights.

I thnk google being ad company - they do it to increase number of videos advertizers willing to pay for.
advertisers avoid "negative" content

whichc ofc sucks for actual users

They removed the button entirely... for Shorts.