I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    41·
    4 months ago

    What happened is that you forgot to install an ad blocker.

    edit ad blocker won’t help here

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      yes, but their results are trash now. shows you 5 results, then 10 or things you’ve probably already seen completely unrelated to the search, then random “trending” garbage.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      4 months ago

      This is not ad-blocking related. The search results on YouTube are literal trash and there’s nothing we can do about it.

      • vga@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        4 months ago

        Oh right. How amazing that one of my highest upmodded comment is the one where my comment is objectively full of shit