As well as being covered in community posts, ads, and shorts. I think if I looked at Youtube for the first time and it was like this, I'd delete it.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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I think the thing that people are dancing around but not quite getting to is that it's the attention economy. The goal is to monopolize your attention as completely as possible in order to sell as many ads as possible. You may recognize that this is more or less the model of gambling or any other industry that relies on keeping its customers addicted. This is one of those things that doesn't seem very malicious, but could well represent a malicious business choice.
Yeah, monopolizing attention/free time of the user is probably what feels dystopian in this