Youtube wants to be much like Tiktok, barely any search capability, just a stream of
ML generated OR recommended videos, anything else outside of a constant, continuous video stream generated based on your metadata and other PII is considered "overhead" by these cyborgs, search for relevant videos? overhead, sorting videos? overhead, let the algo do.
These changes also render the site nearly unusable if you have a triple digit iq.
p.s. Youtube's search, much like Gooogle's, is pure dog shit by the way. Neither of them fill the function of a search at this point, you'd have to remove SEO and ML optimizations from them to get them working again. I search for "X" in youtube, I get 2-3 videos vaguely related to it, and then like 50 "videos you watched", "videos others searching for X watched". It's so fucking bad its unreal, makes me think what kind of a brain dead adderall crack addict they have QA testing this there.
These changes also render the site nearly unusable if you have a triple digit iq.
p.s. Youtube's search, much like Gooogle's, is pure dog shit by the way. Neither of them fill the function of a search at this point, you'd have to remove SEO and ML optimizations from them to get them working again. I search for "X" in youtube, I get 2-3 videos vaguely related to it, and then like 50 "videos you watched", "videos others searching for X watched". It's so fucking bad its unreal, makes me think what kind of a brain dead adderall crack addict they have QA testing this there.