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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their algorithm certainly made videos worse the moment they started priorizing the promotion of longer videos over shorter ones leading to an increase in incredibly long winded videos that waste everyones time.