YouTube probably could have gotten away with this, at least with far less revolt, 10 years ago. The quality of content has dropped drastically on YouTube. It's all the same formulaic formats with the same obnoxious C list actors who sound like borderline informercial retards. Years ago I used to look for cool stuff to watch on YouTube, then I just stopped bothering because it wasn't any good. Then Google started pushing 10 minute YouTube videos in their search for things that would take 30 seconds to read. Then I stopped using Google search. With this I just flat started avoiding Google. I don't think they realize how their search manipulation and now forcing of ads is driving people away. They are far too arrogant. I'm sure there's lots of people like me who used Google stuff a lot more 10 years ago.
Same here, I work in tech and I'm now going back to reading books and looking up information in there because books get updated but google shows me solutions from 15 years ago and using modern technologies.
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