Just don't smoke/eat junk/do drugs etc. They put addictive shit in your face and force you to use their bloated interface to access the service.

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mschuster91 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The worst thing for me is they don't show the channel names. So much of the channels pushing Star Wars shorts are quite obvious bot names, and it's hard to filter these from legitimate SW content creators who are, on top of that, all using the same damn AI voice.

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sfn42 3 days ago | parent [-]

If I hear an AI voice I click the little menu button with three dots, then click don't show this channel or whatever it says.

The Venn diagram of AI voice users and good content creators is pretty close to two separate circles. I don't really care about the minority in the intersection.

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mablopoule 3 days ago | parent [-]

Except that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or not.

As a french-speaking person, I now find myself seeing french youtubers seemingly posting videos with english titles and robotic voice, before realizing that it's Youtube being stupid again.

What's more infuriating is that it's legitimately at heart a cool feature, just executed in the most brain-dead way possible, by making it opt-out and without the ability to specify known languages.

	▲	sfn42 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's gonna have to be the content creators' and YouTube's problem, I don't care.

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meowface 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The response to junk food and cigarettes and drugs is to avoid them, not make them illegal.

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ndriscoll 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's fair to make it illegal to sell or advertise those things to children at least.

	▲	meowface 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's fair, yeah. To a degree. Else you go full UK.

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globular-toast 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Didn't say make them illegal, it's more about advertising and forcing people into situations that make it difficult to say no.