Removing the homepage entirely, replacing the entire UI with the shorts-style format of “view video right now, tap button to see next/previous video”. If you want a specific video, you must search for it.
It’s currently a race-to-the-bottom in big IT & tech, where they don’t look how they get you to like them but how much they can get away with, without repelling most of their userbase.
In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.
Next What??? Removing Title, Only Thumbnail.
Removing the homepage entirely, replacing the entire UI with the shorts-style format of “view video right now, tap button to see next/previous video”. If you want a specific video, you must search for it.
Gemini Ai makes up a title for you.
That’s as cursed as I can make it.
The endgame will be Gemini generating videos based on the information they’ve harvested off you.
The title will be text to speech on mouse over.
The future is here.
Remove the user generated videos. Only title, videoads and comments allowed.
It’s currently a race-to-the-bottom in big IT & tech, where they don’t look how they get you to like them but how much they can get away with, without repelling most of their userbase.
In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.