Sorting the wheat from the chaff has become indeed harder and harder, I guess this is more because of the dominance of the platform. What is definitely clear is

Sorting the wheat from the chaff has become indeed harder and harder, I guess this is more because of the dominance of the platform. What is definitely clear is that popularity-driven content curation produces a draining race-to-the-bottom for what gets put in our feed. Maybe for monetisation, instead of the first 30 seconds having been watched, a further time point should be set. As a Youtube Premium customer I would like to be able to say: this video was exploitative and disingenuous, do not monetize my 31 wasted seconds...