Hell, the crap they've been pulling with the recommendation algorithms and subscriptions that creators have been complaining about also messes with the consumer

Hell, the crap they've been pulling with the recommendation algorithms and subscriptions that creators have been complaining about also messes with the consumers. I get so much crap I'm not interested in displayed when I open YouTube up compared to a year or two ago, and I've been watching more content than ever so it's not like Google doesn't have a good profile on me. All it takes is watching one video outside my normal fields of interest and my front page is flooded with similar ones I have no interest in watching, it's ridiculous. Anyway, I already pay for YouTube Premium, if I'm going to give anything extra to content creators beyond the chunk of that Google divides among them I'm not going to do it through the platform that's actively hostile to the people creating the videos I'm watching.