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I'm biased since I work at Google, but, seriously, my YouTube Premium subscription is the most bang for the buck out of everything I subscribe to. My YouTube ex

I'm biased since I work at Google, but, seriously, my YouTube Premium subscription is the most bang for the buck out of everything I subscribe to. My YouTube experience is delightful. I never see ads, and my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests.

lostsock 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. YouTube premium and Google Music for the one price? Works on all of my devices, no ads, and totally seamless. Such good value for money.
- lostmsu 6y ago
  100% agree, except I don't pay anything and simply use ad blockers.
- Apotheos 6y ago
  Just a heads up Google Play Music is being shut down, of you have any uploaded music, download it!
  - mchusma 6y ago
    It's now youtube music, it's basically the same. Although you can watch videos in it, or just listen to videos as music? It's sort of odd and I half get it (lots of good audio content on youtube if you turn off the video). So you still get music. But Google's branding strategy here is just odd and confusing. I don't really think they even known how this is going to shake up.
erklik 6y ago
> my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests The ad part I agree quite well with. However, I find that Youtube's recommendation algorithm is quite lacking. I mean this is also the case with Netflix and other social media I have used so not just Youtube's fault (only one that sticks out as better is TikTok). For me, it tends to simply repeatedly recommend way too similar videos. If I somehow happen to watch a video about aa tech review, my feed will be tech reviews and that's it. Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. In general, it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. This leads to very a insular and locked-in-your-own-box experience.
- munificent 6y ago
  > Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. Yeah, every time I click some SNL clip on Reddit, YouTube decides I want all SNL all the time. But I find simply right-clicking a couple and telling it to stop recommending them is very effective at undoing that. > it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. I've observed this too. Sometimes I feels like I have watched every single synthesizer video ever uploaded to YouTube. But I don't consider that an entirely bad thing. There's something to be said for a service with an engagement ceiling. If I find myself scrolling too far down to find an interesting video, that's a good signal that maybe I should get off YouTube and find something better to do.
- GrantZvolsky 6y ago
  I couldn't agree more. YouTube et al gave me what I can only describe as recommendation anxiety, where I opt not to engage with content solely because I don't want similar content recommended in the future.

lostsock 6y ago

Couldn't agree more. YouTube premium and Google Music for the one price? Works on all of my devices, no ads, and totally seamless. Such good value for money.

lostmsu 6y ago
100% agree, except I don't pay anything and simply use ad blockers.
Apotheos 6y ago
Just a heads up Google Play Music is being shut down, of you have any uploaded music, download it!
- mchusma 6y ago
  It's now youtube music, it's basically the same. Although you can watch videos in it, or just listen to videos as music? It's sort of odd and I half get it (lots of good audio content on youtube if you turn off the video). So you still get music. But Google's branding strategy here is just odd and confusing. I don't really think they even known how this is going to shake up.

erklik 6y ago

> my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests The ad part I agree quite well with. However, I find that Youtube's recommendation algorithm is quite lacking. I mean this is also the case with Netflix and other social media I have used so not just Youtube's fault (only one that sticks out as better is TikTok). For me, it tends to simply repeatedly recommend way too similar videos. If I somehow happen to watch a video about aa tech review, my feed will be tech reviews and that's it. Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. In general, it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. This leads to very a insular and locked-in-your-own-box experience.

munificent 6y ago
> Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. Yeah, every time I click some SNL clip on Reddit, YouTube decides I want all SNL all the time. But I find simply right-clicking a couple and telling it to stop recommending them is very effective at undoing that. > it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. I've observed this too. Sometimes I feels like I have watched every single synthesizer video ever uploaded to YouTube. But I don't consider that an entirely bad thing. There's something to be said for a service with an engagement ceiling. If I find myself scrolling too far down to find an interesting video, that's a good signal that maybe I should get off YouTube and find something better to do.
GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. YouTube et al gave me what I can only describe as recommendation anxiety, where I opt not to engage with content solely because I don't want similar content recommended in the future.