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YouTube crushed their competition years ago. Of course the product is going to shit- there is no motivation to improve.

• edjrage 6y ago
  I get the no improvement part, but why make it worse by removing stable, useful features? How much maintenance does it need? What are they gaining from this?
  • compiler-guy 6y ago
    Google gains a lot less span and abuse on its system by doing this. My preferred solution would be better filtering and abuse handling, but at the moment this feature is a very mixed bag at best.
  • Glant 6y ago
    From the YouTube help page "This feature was rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse so we’re removing them to focus on other creator tools. You can still use your own captions, automatic captions, and third-party tools and services." That seems fair enough to me. Creators can still add captions, it's just viewers that can't add them without a 3rd party service.
  • R0b0t1 6y ago
    If you are a monopoly you have little to no signal you have done a bad thing. It's not that they have no incentive to improve, it's that they have no understanding of what is or isn't improvement. Some people are arguing about a reduction in spam or abuse, but it might also be a liability issue (but I don't know how or why).