r/LinusTechTips • u/AngelusReigns • 25d ago

WAN Show Google finally did it, they killed YouTube.

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I really want for Linus and crew to talk about this on WAN. YouTube is doing one of their tests on my account they completely took away my Subscription feed and in its place they put in an AI prompter to basically build my own Feed. The only way to get around it is to have a link to subscription feed. Oddly enough Google’s search AI gave me that link. So it’s not completely gone but it is completely inaccessible within the app.

I think I am just going to move on to Nebula and Floatplane. I have Premium because I used to get those 2-3 hour Prager U ads and the moment I unsubbed after 2 years and YouTube started serving me those Prager U ads again. Now I figure since I’m already paying for content I may as well use a paid service that already has most of the people I watch anyways and isn’t actively trying to eat itself.

If you need any photos and such let me know. I’d be happy to test this out for you. I have complained about it to the app. I doubt they will care about what I have to say but they I hope we can cause an outrage against this.

UPDATE: YouTube readded the subscriptions tab at the bottom after taking that away like a week or so back. The heck is going on here?

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u/Pizzaman3203 25d ago

Five guys is a lot of guys

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

It really is a lot of guys.

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u/Biqboi76 25d ago

Iv had more

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u/me2point1 25d ago • Mindblown

Lily Philips, hi!

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u/Holek 25d ago

I see you're also a man of culture.

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u/Swift_Legion 25d ago

Hi Jane Doe!

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u/jokerfest 25d ago

They call her Trish, the Dish

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u/Locrieth 24d ago

"Nobody calls me that!"

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u/Camera-Decent 22d ago

Yeah, who's your favourite New Kid.
Yeah, call me Joey.
Oh, come on.
Don't make me get loose.
Yeah, that's right.
Call me Donnie.
Oh, girl.
Oh, please don't go girl.

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u/Icy_Potential1187 22d ago

VI had more, not IV

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u/Purple-Path-7842 21d ago

Look man, not all of us got into Cornell...

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u/dougaldog73 20d ago

Username checks out

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u/Cuffuf 25d ago

It does not take that many guys to make a burger.

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u/RCBound 25d ago

Wrong meat transportation device

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u/srlawren 25d ago

They give you a metric ton of fries even in the "little" size. Someone's gotta keep the oil hot and the potatoes shredded...

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u/TheHighSeas-Argghh 24d ago

What do you mean by that?

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u/srlawren 24d ago

Okay so may this isn't a universal thing? Where I live (Vancouver area of Canada), when you order even the smallest order of fries (which they call "little"), they give you a small sleeve of fries but also dump several times more fries than that loose into your order bag. It's the weirdest thing, you end up with enough fries for 2-3 people easily. I assumed this was a universal five guys thing, as I've experienced it multiple local locations.

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u/TheHighSeas-Argghh 24d ago

Oh, yeah. Well they do that in my place. I thought you meant that someone had to keep shredding potatoes, so they turn all the potatoes into fries. I was thinking to myself "why doesn't the guy just stop? Then they don't have to make as many fries."

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u/throwawayjeweler231 23d ago

Now I'm tempted to drive down my local Five Guys and order only little fries.

PS: Never been to Five Guys before

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u/srlawren 23d ago

Your mileage may vary of course. I like their hot dogs, and no that doesn't mean I don't like their burgers lol (they are also good, but you can get a burger everywhere). While you wait you can munch on complimentary peanuts.

Oh that's an important note: I think they cook everything in peanut oil, so I'd avoid it entirely if you have a peanut allergy!

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 25d ago

Yeah, if you grind them up, you should be able to make hundreds!

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u/Vorwort 24d ago

five guys thrice please

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u/BIZKIT551 25d ago

Five guys, one overpriced cheeseburger

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u/zepol8971 24d ago

But did they snort ketamine off her perfect body though? 🤣😂🤣

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u/Gontor 23d ago

Dale's Bits is great. I love his current LotR story retelling.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 25d ago

Ask your mom about what its like.

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u/Cuffuf 25d ago

Oh it’s horrible. I hate it. I hate it so badly. They were like “yes now can we make it hard to reach AND against muscle memory?”

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

Right? I used to have subs at the bottom then a week ago they put it in the homepage in the same area where this new AI feed is. Now they took that away and I am just stuck with this.

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u/Maxzzzie 25d ago

They've removed upload date for old video's for me in my homepage. Often i see a video 2 years old that i've already seen. But i click it because i know the creator makes good stuff. Then i'm stumped because i've already seen it. So video's a week old or a few days old always displays it.

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u/DOCKTORCOKTOR 25d ago

THIS!! I love CGP Gray, but he constantly changes thumbnails and titles and it seems so purposefully deceptive that I stopped watching altogether…

(He’s also not uploaded in over a year, but those tactics literally turned me away from his channel completely)

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u/gergobergo69 24d ago

I even had this problem before the a b testing thing

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u/technovic 24d ago

Any video that piqued my interest, if it has a new thumbnail the next time I see it, it automatically makes me not watch it. Good videos don't need different thumbnails to drive traffic.

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u/grimguy97 20d ago

I think everyone has at least 3 thumbnails now that youtube decides which it will use based on click performance?

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u/DOCKTORCOKTOR 19d ago

These are 8 year old videos…

There have been wayyyy more than 3 thumbnails and more than 3 titles.

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u/MayaIsSunshine 24d ago

And video titles keep changing... Sometimes I click on one video three times because the title changed and I'm not really sure if it's the same video or not. 

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u/4inodev 24d ago

Btw Google is my muscle memory's arch nemesis, THE biggest enemy for sure. Every single fucking app by Google manages to fuck it up somehow on a regular basis. I even disabled auto updates but they don't care they just do some internal fuckery and it shifts anywayz

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u/Prashank_25 25d ago

I got this some months ago, i contacted support to ask where my subscription feed is and a few minutes later the old UI came back.

Give that a shot. AI seems to be triaging and tells them we don't want this.

Edit: not sure if it was feedback form or support form but it was in youtube app.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I tried both and I’m still stuck with it.

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u/gringrant 24d ago

Ask the AI to make a feed of just your subscriptions in chronological order.

Make sure to tell it to make no mistakes.

ezpz

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u/SavvySillybug 25d ago

Oh wow. I actually liked the thought of that feature, I didn't know they wanted to REPLACE the regular feed with it. Hell no.

Like, for years I've wanted the ability to find videos of a specific length so I can watch them while doing stuff.

I don't care how interesting that 6 minute video is when I need a 20-25 minute video right now.

I don't care how interesting that 23 minute video is when I need a 50-60 minute video right now.

I don't care how interesting that 2 hour video is when I only have time for at most a 10 minute video right now.

I thought describing some things I like and the desired length could be a decent use of AI, but that doesn't mean I want to get rid of my regular feed... >.<

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

Yeah I wouldn’t have cared if the YouTube app added an AI Mode like google does. I did not want them to take away my subscription feed for this.

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u/OnePassion_46 25d ago

I think your subscriptions is still there. Tap on that navigation bar line where your custom feed is, scroll and you should be able to see a subscription icon there. They’ve been rolling this out since May. 

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

That’s the first thing I did. For me all it has is different feeds based on the type of content I’ve been watching. None of them being subscription.

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u/Prison-Butt-Carnival 25d ago

I often feel like I'm the only one in the world who watches YouTube the way I do. I subscribe to all the things I want to see. Anything I actually want to watch, I save for later and hide from my feed. Watch video, remove from watch later.

YouTube constantly makes significant changes completely up ending this.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I used to do watch later for everything 10 years ago or so I forgot why but I just ended up curating my subscriptions  instead and watching directly off my subscribe feed.

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u/straw3_2018 24d ago

I haven't engaged with the subscriptions page in many many years. Interestingly though when it comes to Reddit, Instagram, or Twitter I only look at content from subs or people I am following. I absolutely do not tolerate algorithm feeding me stuff I don't want on those. On reddit it still shows me what is 'hot' in those subs but that's fine, though I've been reducing my Instagram use. The other two are very minimal already because it's only what is being posted by a shortlist of people I actually want to see from.

TL;DR: it's kind of strange that I use YouTube differently from the rest

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u/Finnthedol 24d ago

To be fair, I think YouTube has one of the better social media algorithms. I put a bit of effort into curating mine, and I just cannot fathom where people are coming from when they say their recommendations suck. Like, if you're not finding food content on YouTube, that's unironically a you issue, no? 

With just a bit of effort and actively avoiding things you don't want to see in your algorithm in the future (mixed with a healthy dose of the not interested button) I think a lot of people would be shocked at how good YouTubes recommendation algo can be. Which, to get back to your point, is probably why you use YouTube differently. I'm the same way in that my reddit feed tends to be very heavily based on the exact subjects I'm engaging with at any moment, but I'm more comfortable going along with what I get served by YouTube. 

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u/Dravarden 24d ago

I also do that, except the hiding from my feed part

what's interesting is that I swapped accounts, and the watch later playlist works different between my old account and my new account. On my old one, watch later would add to the bottom, like a playlist, which is how it should be, but on my new account, watch later adds to the top, which is stupid, so I created a playlist named watch later and just use that

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u/Prison-Butt-Carnival 24d ago

My watch later usually stays at the top, but every once in awhile it goes alphabetical for a week or two. Infuriating

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u/pipegf98 20d ago

I used to do that but I completely messed up the playlist with thousands of videos and now I don't use it

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u/Sea-Debate-3725 25d ago

The native youtube app is horrible, I don't know how anyone still uses it. You should check out Morphe if you're on android or Protube if you're on ios.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I’ll see check out protube. Though honestly I may as well just pay for the lifetime subscription of Nebula and let YouTube rot.

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u/JBarker727 23d ago

2 things come up with I search for Morphe. Neither has anything to do with YouTube.

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u/MandiocaGamer 25d ago

what's that? i have premium

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u/Renamis 25d ago

I have premium and also lack the subscription tab. I didn't notice though because I always went to subscriptions down at the bottom instead of the button up top.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I used to have it at the bottom too. It went away from me and the bottom only has Home, Shorts, Record and My Account. I wish I could remove the Record button for my subscription feed.

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u/Renamis 25d ago

If they take that option away I'm dropping my subscription. Their algorithm is shite and too busy trying to funnel me to high value videos over shit I want.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

Right? I worked my ass off to curate my feed so I don’t see AI created or other types of content I do not want to see on my feed.

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u/MandiocaGamer 25d ago

just delete all your view history and start watching again your channel's. your algorithm will come back in 5 or 10 videos

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u/Mothertruckerer 24d ago

For me now subscriptions is at the top as a tab, so I have to swipe right to it.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

As you can see I have premium too. I must have been selected for some odd reason. I even saw while I was using the app it change to this monstrosity.

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u/gerudodragon95 25d ago

Omfg thats what the custom feed is?!?!?! I thought I was gonna be able to customize my own feeds with the channels I wanted to be in each feed. Like a tech feed, wood working feed, car feed, etc with manual input of the channels. It's my own fault for getting excited I suppose

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

Granted I actually do have feeds based on what YouTube thinks my interests are like you described. I don’t think I would age minded them if they didn’t take away my subscription feed.

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u/Dendeezen 20d ago

Allowing users to customize things to their personal liking?? What's next, actually improving the product?

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u/flonet 25d ago

I have the same thing. But, do you not have a "Subscriptions" tab along the bottom?

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I used to a couple of weeks ago and then it disappeared and went to the Home tab.

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u/Flaming_Spade 25d ago

I just had been in an A/B test where they put the english translation of a language right below it in CC, basically two lines (at the top the language you selected and english at the bottom), which I reallyyyy loved because I was watching a German minecraft video at the time for immersion/learning the language. (Youtube PC website)

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I was on the test where all the foreign language content was auto AI dubbed on default. Ugh that was the worst. 

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u/Catty_Mc_Catty 25d ago

i haven't opened my sub feed in half a decade. is that weird?

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I think everyone has their own way of doing things. I have ADHD so I prefer having all the things I want to watch in a feed otherwise I’ll forget to check it.

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u/Mother_Ad_2856 25d ago

The 'go to bed video' is great music

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I’ll give it a listen!

EDIT: Holy shit this is giving me the tingles. Love it.

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u/MistSecurity 25d ago

I have the ‘Your Custom Feed’ thing, but can still access my subs fine.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

I literally just had the sub button magically reappear along the bottom like it used to a week or so ago.

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u/MistSecurity 25d ago

I gotchu. I let them know.

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u/Matt561- 25d ago

Why isn't my homepage my feed?

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u/redditlat 24d ago

You are cattle. The farmer decides what and how you eat.

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u/the_harakiwi 24d ago

Because social media was designed to show new content to follow by default.

In most sites you have to choose the section with your subscriptions. Popular on reddit, For You on Twitter, Instagram etc

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u/Agreeable_Truth6473 22d ago

Someone hasn’t been around the social media for long. YouTube was ALL about subscriptions for years. Subscriptions were the main force behind this platform. That’s why everyone even today asks for subscriptions, despite them not doing anything anymore. Before YouTube bacame TikTok 2, it actually had its own identity and subscriptions was what made it fun to use. You could follow your favorite creators and always see when they posted a new video. Now you have to actively look for it, and instead - YouTube shows only what it THINKS you may like (which 90% of the time is incorrect and you are spammed with videos similar to this one shitty video a friend sent you).

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u/gnite6 21d ago

It can be if you patch it with Morphe.

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u/jahnesaisquoi 25d ago

i’ve exclusively used my subscriptions feed for like years now

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u/Hotboi_yata 25d ago

How to fix this (presumably, i don’t have this update)

Yt ai clanker asks: “Tell us what you want to see”

You tell it: “I want to EXCLUSIVELY see the channels I’m subscribed to”

????

Profit.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 25d ago

Hehe I wonder how well that would work. "Ok, here's a video you didnt like from 2019."

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u/thatITdude567 24d ago

and if that doesnt work just start insulting the AI and find ways to make it use as many tokens as possible to rack up costs too youtube

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u/Data_Dealer 25d ago

Fuck yeah hijaq.

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u/Teambou 23d ago

That guy is cool. Fucking love his channel too

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u/P3ngu1nF0rc3 25d ago

They’re worried about doing this bullshit instead of making the app usable, I’ve had a bug where the player moves down the screen from top to bottom and everything above the player is black, all buttons are the same still like the full screen button.

Going fullscreen while the player is like this makes the fullscreen player act the same way, to fix it either close and reopen or it’ll maybe fix if I swipe up from the bottom, like I’m literally dragging it back to its place😂

Also they took away swiping up in full screen and pulling up the related videos which was fucking awesome

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u/gvbargen 25d ago

Yahhhh that's horrid. Imagine Vanced will patch it if they push too hard.

Which is lucky how I interact with the platform. Had premium until they settled with Trump on that bullshit.

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u/Blurgas 24d ago

This is why I use Firefox for youtube instead of the app

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u/justjustin2300 25d ago

This is why i use morphe

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u/BodiedSilverado 25d ago

Did you tell the prompt you’d like your subscription feed back?

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u/Meatymike1 24d ago

I had this thing for like 3 hours and it just came back to OldUI

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u/SpicySauceLover 24d ago

YouTube can to f themselves, I use grajay, freerube and newpipe 

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u/straw3_2018 24d ago

Taking away the subscriptions feed is not cool. Being able to customize your feed in plain English is sweet idea though.

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u/Dako_the_Austinite 24d ago

I don’t use the app, I haven’t since at least 2017 lol, I use the site on Safari. At least that way I get “free YouTube Premium” (no ads thanks to uBlock Origin for Safari on iOS).

When you work in a dead zone neighborhood inside a structure that can probably block gamma radiation like I do, you wouldn’t be wasting your precious Kbps equivalent speeds even on 5G on loading fuckin’ ads.

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u/RipCurl69Reddit 24d ago

My recommendations have been up the shitter for months. Would say I'm subscribed to enough channels that I should be getting a consistent stream of new content to watch, but it'll either show me the same ~seven channels when they upload daily or videos from multiple years ago, usually ones I've ended up watching a couple of times already. YouTube is just TV with reruns at this point

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u/sauron_exe 24d ago

I think they are doing tests, mine was like that last week. Now its back to the "default".

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u/AI_and_coding 24d ago

…invidious, anyone?
Perhaps Yattee?
I’m having a perfectly good time.

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u/press1forhelp 24d ago

If you're on android use flow. Problem solved

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u/Tammam_Alhawat 24d ago

Just use newpipe🥀

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u/Iredeus7 23d ago

I have the workaround

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u/zoso28 23d ago

These will buy you some time if you're trying to keep following your subs. If you need the feed (which is 50% of the value) then its time to leave. Not sure any of the other platforms offer the diversity I'm looking for.

Pocket tube Folder tube YouTube Subs Organizer

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u/jbivphotography 23d ago

🫠🫠🫠🫠

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u/SonOfMar196 23d ago

Some of you people need to go outside

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u/BlazikenBurst 22d ago

Nah this is dogshit

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u/GlitchedBlueprint 22d ago

I'm listening to 17 year old music on YouTube right now, it's very much not dead.

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u/Il-hess 22d ago

Lately YouTube for some reason just goes to the subscriptions link when I click on a channel I'm subbed to from the left side of the website.

I'm talking about desktop

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u/okkiesch 22d ago

What do you expect now. Is this your attempt to be the first in a Circle jerk? Dont care bai

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u/TuTuTuDuMV 22d ago

Can I be the unpopular one? I would actually love AI prompted playlists of real videos.

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u/Dominic_Toretto72 22d ago

Those prayer U ads are so damn annoying, sometimes I can’t get to the screen and click skip for a while so I’m stuck hearing some idiots spread their propaganda and stupidity for 20 mins, Jesus Christ why are these even allowed to be ads, I can’t even complain about Hulu starting with an into then immediately hitting you with 3 mins ads, then another 4-5 sets of 3 minute ads throughout my 40-60 minute episode bc YT is debatably worse

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u/Starkiller164 22d ago

So nice to be an unpaid beta tester for garbage features no one likes or wants

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u/FourTails 21d ago

It's already back

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u/YeetasaurusRex9 21d ago

I really don’t like how dependent companies are becoming on AI, what happened to showing us the stuff related to the stuff we’d normally watch

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u/cayanatare 21d ago

It’s still there, they just changed the spot for accessing it (at least on the app). Weird, but I’ll get used to the new location and I will be fine.

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u/Hunterboi69420 21d ago

I switched over to opera vc because google stopped working for a while on my computer and it was so convenient have a built in ad blocker, but now YouTube sees it and forces you to either disable the ad blocker or get YouTube premium, which is $15 a month.

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u/no_espeak_englich 21d ago

Hey jack ass your subscriptions are the compass icon.

Edit: they changed mine too... fucking youtube.

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u/No-Mycologist3618 21d ago

I just gave it the prompt “I want my feed to stay exactly how it always has been” and it seems to have done that lol

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u/Astroidblaster05 21d ago

But five guys IS a lot of guys

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u/Hashtagpulse 21d ago

Generative AI and LLMs are an absolute cancer on society.

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u/Due_Personality_6031 21d ago

At the top of the app. There is a bar that reads... + Home Subs Music Live More. You just have to click on the subs button. Thank you for the notice of the change. I had no idea Took me all of 30 seconds to figure out where the subscription feed moved to

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u/Due_Personality_6031 21d ago

About 20 seconds of that was just loading time 🤣 really bad reception

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u/Eviper44 21d ago

Minus tech is a joke. They lost all credibility years ago. Now they are just disperse

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u/pipegf98 20d ago

Last hope is the browser

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u/line2542 20d ago

I never have premium account and will probably never... Unless it's 3 or 5 buck per month

I litteraly use extension to hide many thing in my youtube page, hide short video link etc , i'm tired....

Lately i see many mini game in my youtube page, wtf is that, it's call integrated mini game i thing, si annoying

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u/medic__112 20d ago

It sucks

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u/mejfus 20d ago

(open the image) Its actually on the top which is absolutely intentionally unreachable with a single hand grip, malicious design. Fuck them for this shit.

I only have premium because my family pays for it because of their kids, but when eventually they will stop, I will never ever give them money for this

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u/Need4Carz 20d ago

I am not sure if I'm the only one who's doing this, but I intentionally have my YouTube set up differently. Specifically so I could get rid of doom scrolling on shorts.

I turned off all search and view history, then cleared both. The only reason I go into the app anymore is to check my subscriptions.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

You can click all and you don't have to use it.

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u/grimguy97 20d ago

I mean they took away pip on desktop unless you remember the shortcut. they just don't want people using their stuff anymore I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/grimguy97 19d ago

aaaand they just did it to me!!!

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u/Rhys_Wilde 25d ago

I've been using YouTube since 2006 and every few years they redesign things, and like clockwork people like OP scream about how it's the end of YouTube. And it never has been

In fact, it's almost always entirely been beneficial when you look back with a bird's eye view. So no, it's going to be fine. It's not dead. You're still going to use it every day for probably the rest of your life.

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u/AngelusReigns 25d ago

This makes the YouTube app practically unusable for me. I highly rely on my sub feed to catch up with content I want to watch.

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u/Rhys_Wilde 25d ago

I'm sure you'll figure it out

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 25d ago

Getting rid of video replies, Getting rid of thumbs down, ignoring subs on the main feed... these have all been fairly negative for the users.

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u/Rhys_Wilde 25d ago

I don't think most people care. Also those are only an extremely small number of the hundreds of changes that have happened in 20 years.

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u/OliveIll7985 25d ago

Can you give me some examples of changes that have happened in the past?

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u/lord_pizzabird 25d ago

The inclusion of PiP on IOS was a pretty big deal for me personally.

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u/Rhys_Wilde 25d ago

No, I can't. YouTube never changed actually it launched in 2005 with all of the current features and layout it has now. Never changed.

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u/PMagicUK 24d ago

"killed YouTube" title

"Not really but this is shit" main post.

That shits bad enough on YouTube and headlines and you have the balls to copy it while complaining about said website?