YouTube 

Top platform but i think it would be Nice if it let You download videos

Youtube was one of the best platforms in the entire world. Key word “was” because now schools are banning YouTube all across schools. The reason is “that it’s distracting to the other students…” distracting who? Who is getting distracted by someone watching brainrot on YouTube, nobody is. If you’re somebody who makes review videos pls make a video about this. BRING BACK YOUTUBE ON TO SCHOOL DEVISES!!

Greed has ruined YouTube. Incessant adverts. If you pay thirteen quid per month, it becomes watchable.

Youtube makes it impossible for small channels to grow. Even with elite metrics (ctr, watchtime etc.) videos get really hard supressed. Gemini itself confirms that.

Banned and removed my channel just for a comment.

Sooooo many ads, Incredbile, you can't even watch 5 minute video without at least 4 ads of a minute each. The good thing is that you have time to write review in the mean time.

Money, money, money, is the rich Man's world. Greediness, so from last month, from EUR 9.99 to 13.99 EUR. What the hell (when posting a word called f....?Hyppocrits you Americans) is wrong....here. Reason? You pay & you loose all titles within 30 days?

YouTube is weird af. The good thing is that there are lots of tutorials, and entertaining / funny videos. But, there are lots of kids (which i am also a kid too but not a bad one) who makes, “emojicat heat”. Which is so weird. And also some people are begging for people to sub or resub to them becuase they lost like, 5. Well, STOP GIVING A TANTRUM ABOUT IT (if you are.). YOU, POPULAR YOUTUBERS ARE GETTING THE ATTENTION, WHEN I ONLY HAVE LIKE 170 SUBS. YOU SHOULD BE GREATFUL FOR BRING POPULAR.

YouTube's really gotten bad 90% of their advertisements are complete scams the best way for YouTube to improve this is for somebody else to make out complete better platform that doesn't rip off poor stupid people I know they'll pay for it and get scammed themselves in the end I just hope I'm around to watch and laugh

The video selection algorithms have gotten worse. They're increasingly showing me things I'm not interested in. There are so many ads now that it's simply impossible to watch without a paid plan.

As an independent digital creator and web administrator in the UK, my experience with YouTube’s backend system has been completely unacceptable. The platform operates via opaque, non-transparent algorithms that suppress independent creation while failing to provide basic, accessible dispute resolution.

My channel was abruptly terminated via automated loops with zero explicit evidence of non-compliance. When reaching out to their official support on X (@TeamYouTube), I was met with generic, copy-paste template responses explicitly stating a lifetime ban from creating or owning any account, completely denying any form of transparent human review.

For an organization with Strategic Market Status (SMS), this level of arbitrary market exclusion and refusal of due process flies directly in the face of fair trading principles. This complete correspondence and lack of human recourse has been fully documented and is being formally escalated to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act framework.

Its great opportunity for poor people to learn many things around the world.
Thanks youtube

YouTube was actually good until 2017 where a lot more rules became active. Like people’s videos get removed for no reason at all, like, literally no reason. Like one of the videos on the channel Oh Shiitake Mushrooms uploaded a video of a challenge with no bad language or violence or any other bad things in there, and they STILL GOT A STRIKE!!!! And I uploaded a video about a light show at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI on my channel and it GOT BLOCKED GLOBALLY!!! I think it was due to some music in there. Also, a childhood channel of mine called Joeysgonoodlegetmoving got terminated as well!!!!! God, they shouldn’t do the whole copyright thing on YouTube. YouTube should only take down videos or channels if people are copying other channels, harassing, bullying, promoting genocide or terrorism, misinformation, sexual content, harmful content, and offensive or content that discriminates against others. YouTube has way too many stupid ass rules these days!!!

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The internet was born on a foundation of decentralized sharing, open-source collaboration, and peer-to-peer connection. It was a digital landscape designed to respect human effort and imagination, offering a global town square where independent voices could find an audience on the merits of their craft. Today, that original vision has been systematically dismantled by a process of hyper-centralization. At the forefront of this shift is YouTube -- a platform owned by Google that has evolved from a repository for human creativity into a cold, corporate monopoly driven entirely by the mechanics of the attention economy.

For independent creators, particularly those whose work challenges mainstream sensibilities or avoids commercial boxes, navigating modern YouTube is an exercise in frustration. The platform operates on an engineered hierarchy that critics frequently describe as illiberal, elitist, and fundamentally indifferent to human artistry. This systemic hostility manifests through automated algorithms and rigid corporate policies that flatten culture, prioritizing high-volume, predictable content over raw human expression.

The algorithmic infrastructure of YouTube is not managed by people with a pulse for cultural health; it is built by teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers who optimize for a singular metric: maximizing advertising revenue and viewer retention. Because the machine learning models feed on mass data signals, they exhibit a severe familiarity bias. The algorithm pushes legacy icons, corporate media conglomerates, and highly vetted, mainstream content because they represent a safe financial return. Conversely, avant-garde, original, or independent artistic projects are buried under algorithmic shifts, denied organic discovery, and starved of visibility.

Furthermore, the automation that runs the platform treats human users with systemic suspicion. Independent creators are frequently subjected to a 'guilty until proven innocent' dynamic, where automated copyright bots or poorly calibrated AI moderators issue sudden restrictions, flags, or drops in visibility. When users attempt to communicate with the platform or offer feedback, they are met with a faceless bureaucracy. The questionnaires and surveys prompted by Google are largely performative; they do not exist to gather genuine human opinion or philosophical critique, but rather to harvest standardized data points to further train the AI. It is an enclosed system where the creator is treated not as the lifeblood of the culture, but as a disposable data point to be managed.

The amount of ads is beyond a joke. Whats the point of watching a video when you watch more adverts that accumulate more watching time than the actual video

what has happened to this site, a billion dollar company flooding videos with ads. an absolute joke right now.
adds before you start the vid, ad after 2mins, in video add that you have to remove and so on.
just no point in trying to watch anything on this site anymore.
now just another billion dollar company that has forgot what the whole point is, creaming as much as they can and ruining the whole experience.
its basically spam.
terrible.

Violating gdpr laws.
there are no restored generative+samples CSAM bot banned accounts. In winter last year there was a huge ban wave.
There is no actual decisions for in the appeal process and you even need to appeal from another account, because the method next to the login is officially automated. Both are meant not to restore any CSAM ban and the first can´t possibly do anything.
You don´t receive any personal data upon request.
Comment bots advertising fake media right lawyers and their website stay.

Whenever i open the app it gives the premium subscription offer,,the offer takes the whole screen which is so disturbing.

YouTube is a great forum, for users and digital creators, UNTIL creators run into a problem. Contacting & getting a problem-solving response is virtually NON-EXISTENT.
I encountered a problem with YouTube Promotions feature on 19 April, almost a month ago. Since then, I have referred my problem 6 or 7 times through YouTube’s automated Feedback, Customer Support or Chat features. Only one text response received more than 10 days ago claiming my problem had been sorted out. I checked immediately and found nothing resolved. Informed YouTube immediately through the same reply message that my problem remains the same. No further response!
As a result of inaction or incompetence by Customer Care, I estimate missing out on at least 40 thousand additional views on my uploaded videos. Either YouTube does not value problems faced by customers or the technical support people known there will be no internal accountability and therefore don’t bother to attend to complaints.
Either way, as a digital creator I am suffering from absence of technical support without any end to my problem for almost a month now. I am frustrated, annoyed & baffled at how a company like YouTube can be so insensitive to problems encountered by a YouTube Premium subscription customer like me. I hope there will be at least one responsible staff member at YouTube who will feel embarrassed to read this review and look into my problem!!!