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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Chill on the ads. Yall ah billion dollar company battle paying people but yall show 2 ad minimums. Na.

2. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Ad. Is it normal to have an advertisement every 2 minutes? I watch a 25-minute video, and from 20 minutes to 26, I watched the commercial 4 times, which had two videos. It's just horrible

3. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   They keep removing features. They removed the ability to see how many ads were in a video and where they were placed, and removed the ability to see the amounts of dislikes on a video, which also removed the like/dislike ratio. Now they are removing the dislike button entirely for shorts.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible algorithm.. Pretty much every time I open the app most of the videos I am recommended have nothing to do with the channels I subscribe to. Maybe they have a different algorithm for these shorts and longform videos but either way the algorithm isn't good. There are way too many videos made by AI or spam bots, there are times where I will only ever see that garbage despite only ever disliking them. Even the "Don't recomend this Channel" or the "Not Interested" buttons don't do anything. How do I know this? Because about a quarter of all videos I recieve are already disliked! Whether it is the Shorts or normal videos, I rarely get videos in line with my not very particular taste. I'm fine with most videos so long as they don't have pops or dings or wooshes or idiotic "huh"s. I'd prefer them to be of the genre or theme of the channels and videos I subscribe to or press the like button on. Maybe they prioritize watch time over likes and dislikes. Because of course you ignore the button that's sole purpose is to show if you want to see similar videos. Unfortunately YouTube just can't seem to get it right as they have now removed the dislike button. Instead of, oh I don't know, actually giving it a purpose instead of just letting people grow increasingly frustrated that they aren't getting any videos they don't despise.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Why. Why did YouTube bring back ads back to back.

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Continues to be the worst. Using YouTube has become one of, if not the worst, experiences in streaming of any kind. Constant ads, now not showing how long they are, even ones unskippable followed by another unskippable, untimed ad. Now hiding the dislike button on shorts. Constantly being asked if I want YouTube premium that costs more than any other subscription I have for a service that is constantly going downhill is insane

7. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Too many ADs. Too many ADs

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Randomly plays videos. I had to uninstall the app. On multiple occasions it would start playing load annoying videos unprompted. So annoying. I just couldn’t take it anymore.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   They updated it and it's still not stable. The playlist function is so bad. Whenever I move a video, it automatically moves how it WANTS to move instead of having me to control the videos I wanted to move on the playlist I created

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    New font is ugly. I don't like the new font of the app.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Stop with the nonstop ads. Stop with the ads. Even when I hit skip on an ad it just brings another ad which didn’t happen before

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bring back the dislike button you pansies. See title

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Dislike button. Company can’t handle people not liking a video it seems. Sad

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Price hikes. Love youtube premium but recent price hike without warning has me ticked off.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    So bad. Stupid app keeps crashing repeatedly. Both my iPhone and IPad are up to date and my iPad is the 2026 Air model. Also tired of it telling me the ‘device limit has been exceeded’ when I’ve removed a few devices from my account already. This app is garbage and it’s sucks.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Jonny. So many scam on YouTube are going to do something with it?!

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Ads have become UBEARABLE. The ads just keep getting worse and worse, and now it seems that skipping them doesn’t skip all of them? I have to wait to skip each individual ad???

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App sucks. Bring back dislikes on shorts first of all theres not even an option to dislike anymore unless you go to the three dots and hit not interested.

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    AdTube. Ridiculous amount of ads in order to push their overpriced subscription service which now comes in LITE! because they know they’re greedy and are now trying to look benevolent to their users by making it cheaper by get this only having “ads on some videos” but not all! what a generous bunch aren’t they??

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Jo. The thing I don’t like about YouTube is I had an YouTube channel and you guys deleted it. I will report you.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Ads. Irritate

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Bring back dislikes. Premium is too expensive and they are not testing removing the dislike button from shorts. Let people voice their opinions.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    iPod touch. I used to love YouTube but now I can’t even watch anything thank you apple we totally all asked for this horrible update

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Dislike Button. If you remove the dislike button I and others will express hatred harder in the form of reports and comments. You think you’re saving creators from distress but you are not.

25. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Cheap app. Too many ads

26. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    ADS! ADS! ALL ADS!!!. i’ve never seen a company become so corrupt and greedy. i’m here watching an video an hour long one and im getting 15 seconds ads every 2 minutes, then 30 second ads every 4 minutes. i can’t even pause an video without an ad. absolute sickening.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Navigation isn’t good. Not really much support of swipe gestures. I think I watch less YouTube because it’s not as easy to navigate as it used to be.

28. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    The make the App worse every update. 3 updates in a row now they have made it harder for you to add a video to a playlist. You used to be able to choose which playlist you wanted the video to be in and it would take 5 sec. Now after the update, YouTube guesses what playlist you want the video in so 90% you have to go and change it (which also takes longer now)

29. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    TOO MANY ADS.. too many ads.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    YouTube is irra. I’m. Saying this because when you search up movies u can’t watch them