web What irrates you about YouTube?

[Tao 8,208]

The copy-right bugs and well etc etc. forced a lot of fan-made stuff to be taken down!   Also how does the rate stuff for kids and "adults"  when it comes to anything animation at all.    

[Tira Daffodil 29]

Copyright. I can't stand them. I mean, the video is not being posted because of background music or something like that.

[Sparklefan1234 173,813]

YouTube's new watch bar tint is/was annoying. I thought my screen was broken. 😐

[Jon the VGNerd 887]

YouTube really has gone from bad to worse, and it's getting considerably worse over time ever since Susan took over (before her death). Let's say removing the dislike counter, for starters. Like, folks have the right to not like videos that are bad, if not outright morbid. Especially the cringe videos like with MrBeast (who unfortunately is popular due to younger viewers being too oblivious about his true nature) for example. Speaking of MrBeast, YouTube likes to pick favorites, namely with creators that LOVE to be massive public nuisances for the sake of views, regardless of consequences that can and will happen IRL. But that's not all, YouTube then started to censor swear words because they wanted to make the site more "kid-friendly" when in reality, they're becoming increasingly totalitarian because they can and they will.

Even moreso, they started to deliberately shove in YouTube Kids, on videos that are NOT meant for kids, mind you. Its just their way of silencing folks from posting comments, in the most asinine way there is because of their unhinged mentality in trying to slap every video as "kid-friendly". Yeah, right. If any, it's just another form of increased censorship.

But then things get worse from here when they started to force ads on each and every video to the point where they can't be skipped whatsoever. They even go through great lengths in blocking AdBlockers altogether and lock videos through the worst paywall of all: YouTube Premium. Especially through monthly fees just to watch videos without ads. It's clear enough that they care more about profts than their own community due to their obvious lack of care. And the bots that wreak havoc on comment sections? Yeah, that's definitely not YouTube's problem. The platform's basically destroying itself, and I'm surprised that YouTube and Google hasn't been hit with a massive class-action lawsuit to this already-failing platform.

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,528]

That's a surprising explanation of YouTube's bad side from a gaming guy.  

[Ganondorf8 11,410]

The constant ads interrupting my experience. Every time one shows up, I can't help but be annoyed by it.

[EpicEnergy 23,228]

Many things! One of them being their greed-driven war against ad-blockers, it's become an obsession at this point. 

[RDDash 19,212]

Youtube running an ad about using an adblock that "pays you" to see ads after Youtube agressivelly demanding that people can't use adblock. Are you kidding me?  

[Xada 455]

Youtube still waging war on addblockers. Not even Brave's adblocking works correctly anymore.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 3,016]

 

Youtube is taking data from users, in order to autogenerate response comments from Youtubers. There was no opt-in process. I highly doubt this was a heavily demanded feature by the users.

[Sparklefan1234 173,813]

Having to scroll through a video to find where the "in person ad" ends. 

[Fluttershutter 2,581]

What's funny is when the ads get through sometimes they're ads for AD BLOCKERS!

[KPackratt 398]

Ugh, YouTube is at it AGAIN at blocking the use of video downloading utilities and external frontends. Some users of yt-dlp and NewPipe have reported receiving 403 errors when attempting to use such utilities and even getting banned from viewing YouTube videos on the actual YouTube website (even when signed out).

Someone please invent an alternate video sharing platform that doesn't suck and convince as many content creators as possible to move there once it has been made. I'm getting tired of this crap.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,904]

On 2024-12-18 at 11:56 PM, Fluttershutter said:

What's funny is when the ads get through sometimes they're ads for AD BLOCKERS!

I came to comment this exactly. I got an ad on my phone for an ad blocker called Pie, I mean seriously?

[Sparklefan1234 173,813]

It's annoying watching compilation videos that don't have timestamps MLP: Friendship is Magic, specifically. 

[Fluttershutter 2,581]

I've wondered why the hell they advertise ad blockers on youtube and why a supposedly free ad blocker would need to advertise anyway. You know the one I mean. So I listened to the whole commercial. "Get paid to watch ads you want to see." So they're selling something too. Big surprise.

[Fluttershutter 2,581]

This again.

Last time you could reload and that would go away, now it won't. I'm sure their vires will plummet as they deserve.

[SkarletVoid 114]

I hate the inconsistent censorship and the fact Logan Paul exists

[Night Sky 346]

I would say that the Orwellian censorship irritates me, but it enrages me.

FYI - I only mention this because I know YouTube, I've used it since the beginning and I've run a channel since 2011. I have almost 2 million views and over a thousand subs. 

Why mention this? Over the years, I have watched YouTube metamorphose into a site I no longer recognize. 

Prior to the Google takeover, it was an entirely different platform on an entirely different journey. The Google effect took a long while to set in.

They made nice with the big corporations, dangled various iterations of the monetization carrot. They ruined the first generation of VLoggers, messed up many gamers and totally pushed the normal folks out of the algorithm. It's all big media and insane influencers now. 

They mess with your subscriptions and every time I hear the word "unalived" I know democracy is dying.

Edited March 31 by Night Sky

[Snoopy Fan 2,833]

When ads are longer than the video I’m trying to watch.

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,528]

Google owns it.  The place is on low ground and can't spread its wings.  

[Mlaatr fan2 225]

There is so much to name

1. False copyright 

2. Overusing faces on thumbnails

3. Videos being just yelling 

4. Advertising 

5. Falsely being blocked or removed from youtube

6. Dumb videos popping up in my recommended or suggesting.

7. Everything else 

[RafaStaryStory 3,681]

I feel that the mobile app just keeps getting worse for me. Specially because of some very weird gltiches, I really have no idea if it just happens with me, but at this point it's already comical because a new glitch shows up for me every 4 weeks or even less than that. For example, this was the latest glitch that showed up for me, it's happening since last week, a lot of the videos I watch have a blank space under it. No informations, no title, no views count, no description, no channel, no comments, no dislike and like counter, nothing, just a empty space. I don't know if it's something that happens because of updates, but regardless of it, I'm already waiting for the next glitch ~☆

When it's not glitched:

Spoiler

 

[Rakman 32]

I suppose it's more of a pet peeve than anything but I hate video titles like "The best game you CANT PLAY" or "The Scariest Game You've NEVER Heard Of." Bonus points if whatever the subject of the video is is just something that anyone who loosely pays attention to the online space knows all about.

[Sparklefan1234 173,813]

I don’t like when long videos don’t need to be if that makes sense.

A lot of filler that isn’t related to the main topic, montages etc. 

Edited April 3 by Sparklefan1234