Why has YouTube degraded so quickly so suddenly?

Question

In the past week or two, the quantity and frequency of ads has increased to near intolerable levels (probably at least as bad as TV, if not worse), and today my logged-out recommendations seemed to revert to a generic list of trending videos (e.g. garbage). What's going on?

raxxorrax · Accepted Answer

Maybe it has to to with them age restricting videos so that original content doesn't get shown as much as that from established media players. Or any mechanism that facilitates this.Without account I see the same channels from TV stations now. While virility isn't a good metric for quality, the current one is a complete joke. YouTube didn't seem to be ready for YouTube and instead degraded back to TV.

hexbinencoded · Answer

Corporations gonna corporate.How YT abuses creators and viewers, it would be better for all to go to a non-profit, sustainable platform that has clear, straightforward processes and doesn't ban people without a reason by algorithms.Corporate platforms will always devolve into Kafkaesque hells because their motives are aligned with rent-seeking extraction, not promoting the arts or creativity/monetizing fairly.

krapp · Answer

I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in ages - except for a brief window when they got through my ad blockers recently but that seems to have cleared uo.
As far as content goes, I use it logged in, and I have plenty of good content, but of course the default for a logged-out user is going to be generic, trending videos. Youtube like any other social media platform expect you to have an account and curate that account.
Maybe you deleted your cookies or switched IPs recently?