The golden age of YouTube is over

Re:The golden age of YouTube is over by rasz on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:50PM (#19585217)

Iv had both cleared and disabled probably for 7 years now, and still get garbage every day. Just now watching some 3dfx gameplay video I get:

"$7,000.00 Beta Starter Opened with OpenBoosters - BLACK LOTUS?" investment scam?

"MY $1MILLION DIAMOND INVESTMENT" mm Im seeing a pattern here

"Flat Earth: What Makes REAL Science? – Wisecrack Edition" wat?

Not to mention 10 out of 20 suggestions are videos I already watched and upvoted (I inject custom CSS into YT to make :visited visible again so I can skip it).

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Re:The golden age of YouTube is over by frosted-flakes on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:53PM (#19588664)

Let me clarify: my home page feed doesn't have any clickbait. The suggestions below videos still have some spam, but it's usually related to the video somehow. I rarely look at them anyway.

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Re:The golden age of YouTube is over by rasz on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:58PM (#19591688)

How are the three videos I listed above related in any way, shape or form to retro 3dfx gameplay video "Pentium MMX 233 - 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (Voodoo 1) 8MB running Racing Games from 1998!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb4yajgcLA8 ? Btw today those suggestions are gone, mostly replaced by IRL rally racing ones, probably because one video before that I opened "Paris Dakar 1990 (1990) - Every PC Rally Game".

Getting shitty clickbaity/scam suggestions is not a given/reproducible, but they still happen often enough to be noticed on a daily basis.

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