• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The interruptions supposedly caused by my adblock are tiny compared to the interruptions when I turn it off.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah no shit. “Experiencing interuptions,” nope I’m not actually thank you very much. Youtube has gone down enough in quality to where I would probably just dump it if they manage to hamfist the ads back in. The algo is straight up terrible at keeping me engaged. You watched one video about Y? Whole feed is now about Y for the next week. I find better videos browsing incognito sometimes.

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        5 hours ago

        On the other hand, you watched a bunch of videos of X consistently,but skipped the last 3 we recommended? You’ll never see that topic again.

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          Me: Searches for a very specific video that I know exists because I have seen it within the last three months.

          YouTube: Nope, sorry, just can’t find it. Don’t know where it went. I don’t think that video ever actually existed. I’m not even gonna show you results that contain your search terms because of how stupid I think you are.

          In my case, it was looking for a specific video of pulling a 4.2 liter Jeep engine out of a CJ7. YouTube responded with dozens of videos on CJ5’s and Wranglers, and the 4.0 liter engine, but not the 4.2 CJ7, and not the video I was looking for, and unfortunately it’s not the Jeepin with Cool Guy video.

          Although, in one scroll, they did offer to show me the exact same video three different times.

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            Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.

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              Have you seen google photos ? The search function there is shockingly bad. Even when I know a photo exists of xyz, searching for xyz or words related to xyz finds either nothing at all, or unrelated images.

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            5 hours ago

            I had an 01 Cherokee sport and that 4.0 was amazing though. Spin the tires on pavement no problem even with the automatic transmission.