Has YouTube experienced enshittification?
It seems like some websites think that the more the users know about the quality of the content, the worse it is for the website’s profit
Pathetic
Has, yes. For about the last decade, and they’re not slowing down
Taking away information so I can’t choose how best to use my time… yeah fuck that enshittification.
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.
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.
because if you don’t know straight away how old the video is, now you have to click on it to see. bam, ads.
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.
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
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.
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No way. YouTube is such a flaghship product and a lynchpin in other businesses (like music, streaming, AI development).
I invoke Hanlon’s razor.
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None of those were even close to flagships, they were all short term experiments.
YouTube is the basis for much of Google’s portfolio and a steady moneymaker, not an upstart liek those.
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sacrificing it for a tax loss in 5 years when they shut it down.
Given that Tax = %rate * max(revenue-cost,0)
How can deliberately sabotaging a business make money?
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Always has been
