Oh, YouTube finally died

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YouTube finally allows you to opt-out from awful AI-enhancements for both video and audio. It only works from the creator side of things and on per-channel basis.

Settings > Channel > Advanced settings (and scroll down)

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YouTube team decided that banning 12 million people in a few months and generally ruining search was not bad enough. So a few days ago they removed search by date from the UI!

This sketch is getting more and more relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUncEiyXIT4
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YouTube is fighting Ad Blockers again, cutting off the signal if your browser is cutting off the ad. Can be fixed by F5, but still a bit annoying.

Funny enough, YouTube employees were not initially informed last summer about this trick, so YouTube-Julia created a support forum topic where she said they are investigating the issue and will fix it. Now the page only exists in an archive. Because it's intentional. Dumbasses!

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YouTube is acting weird again: this time they remove custom subtitles from videos! No, not due to violations, they even remove them from tutorials and from officially uploaded anime (without a warning or backup).

Some suggest that it's done to make people use AI dubbing (no one is using or praising). But it's too early to say for sure.

UPD: They are not removing the basic plain text ones, they remove all the fancy formats that supported decorations and other media features. So it's not AI, just a simple enshitification.

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Good job

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Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow meow...

YouTube removed several AI channels completely, including top rated ones. Fake religious channels, fake bloggers, and many others are wiped out for good.

Oh, Google stands for quality? No, they simply received the metrics: this shit seriously ruins their income. ADs in these videos are getting dirt cheap and serious businesses don't want to buy slop spots.

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Everything in the YouTube studio now shows you AI-something. BRAINSTORM VIDEO IDEAS YOUR ASS, Google...

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Fortunately, the test of this "new feature" is limited. Do not fall for it, never turn off ad blocking on YouTube (saying this even as the person who technically monetizes videos).

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YouTube earned $62 billion in 2025 and still pretend that ad blocking you do kills them. That's more than Disney, Paramount, or Warner Brothers.

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YouTube is getting worse and worse

- They can detect 3 seconds of music
- They can't detect scammers in his comments
- So, let's remove 13.8m subs channel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO1RMn8qBs
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