For about a year, I’ve gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way: you can no longer click the title to open the video on YouTube.com or in the YouTube app. This used to work just fine, but now you can’t.
This bothers us, too, and it’s doubly frustrating because everyone assumes that we’ve chosen to disable links, which makes a certain kind of sense — after all, why on earth wouldn’t YouTube want people to click over to its app?
The short answer is money. Somewhat straightforwardly, YouTube has chosen to degrade the user experience of the embedded player publishers like Vox Media use, and the only way to get that link back is by using a slightly different player that pays us less and YouTube more.
Here’s the really long version: like everyone, we publish our videos on YouTube
I think I’ve found the underlying issue
It’s all going to shit. Let’s burn it all down and start over. Will it be better then? Probably not, but burning it down will feel good I imagine.
No need to burn it down it’s gonna crumble on its own.
Just start ignoring it. There’s a simple ad free Internet out there, you just need to start using it as your go-to.
Just like a forest, sometimes it is the best medicine.
Peertube comes in to the rescue!
YouTube is simply squeezing hard now.
They are big enough that 90% of the people who do look at videos do it there. So a video that is posted elsewhere simply does not get the exposure that it does on YouTube.
That gives them a lot of power. And they use it to squeeze as much money as possible from anyone they can. Now, if they would do big squeezes, people would notice and they would at least try to find other sites.
So just like abuse, it’s a slow process of tearing little barriers down of what is acceptable, until at some point users one by one start to realize it has all turned to shit.
But that is going to take a lot of time, and until that happens we are just going to see more reports about all the things YouTube does.
We will keep seeing angry nerds upset about it, and they will block ads and work around it. But nothing else will change. And that is such a small part of the userbase of YouTube that they don’t even feel it.
So I’m going to block ads, watch what I want to watch as long as the site is usuable without ads, and I will stop using the site when ads can no longer be blocked. YouTube is simply not that important to me.
Use uBlock Origin and transition to Peertube.
So just like abuse, it’s a slow process of tearing little barriers down of what is acceptable
The classic “slow boiling frog experiment” is quintessential to the enshittification process
I’ve noticed this and really thought it was the website. All sides lose.
Enshittification at its finest.
Everyone needs to see this comment! Peertube is the way out of capitalism ruining another beloved platform.
YouTube goes down in quality as time goes on meanwhile Peertube just got their App.
I wondered about that.
Interesting, and shameful, didn’t know that.
Use another platform instead?
The problem as presented is that the player they want to use pays them less money. Every other platform would pay them no money, or negative money.
So.
I just click the little YouTube icon that takes me to the page too.
Why isn’t there an unfederated rule banning youtube, Twitter and whatever else links? I only ever see youtube and Twitter. Forcing people to break convenient habits is the only way anything will ever change. I know that mentality seeeeeeems totalitarian but thats only because it absolutely is. Lol
