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YouTube Reviews Summary

YouTube's reputation is increasingly marred by customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to excessive advertisements and perceived censorship. Users express frustration over the platform's reliance on ads, which disrupt viewing experiences and lead many to consider alternatives. Complaints about account suspensions and a lack of transparency regarding community guidelines further exacerbate concerns about customer service. While some users appreciate the vast array of content available, the overall sentiment indicates a growing discontent with YouTube's management practices, prompting calls for more user-friendly policies and a potential shift to competing platforms.

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Youtube Shorts "used" to be good, but now its TRASH. Like now it repeats the same short but the old shorts just lets us look at new stuff

Date of experience: April 21, 2023
California
1 review
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LOVE IT
April 22, 2023

Look youtube is really fun you can watch specific types of thing, like roblox, gaming,or just family life. Also the youtube premium does cost money but its worth it!

Date of experience: April 21, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Left slanted platform vitrue signaling as balanced. Banns people for comments that dont follow the Democratic mantra. Follows blindly whatever leftist crap that is getting flushed into our brains. They lie. They cheat.

Date of experience: April 21, 2023
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This site has a, "give feedback" feature that no matter what I submit as feedback, insanely good ideas that wouldn't be hard to implement, they never get added to the site and app; what a shame.

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very sad that even after taking money you tube will continue showing you advertisements. Hope they improve their services.

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I am sick of them removing comments that I have left and seeing them leave comments up over and over when it's liberals saying crap about conservatives. They got on to me once for typing the f word. I typed it fu#k I didn't even spell it out all the way but 3;comments before mine There was a person who used it several times and spelled it out.Do you think it got removed. Hell no

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
Hawaii
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Freedom of speech
April 15, 2023

YouTube violates your right to freedom of speech it's a communist platform and really is a huge waste of your time!

Date of experience: April 15, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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YouTube erased my channel after trying to protest against abusive child videos!i has nothing on my channel to violate them! Woke up with it being deleted while trying to keep my child from the abusive content! Instead they deleted my channel and the child porn is still on there good luck parents and good luck souls for using such a platform!

Date of experience: April 7, 2023
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ridiculous amounts of ads on YouTube these days, it used to be that you'd see an ad once or twice maybe on every other video, but was previously not too distracting or "atmosphere puncturing".

These days, you're lucky if you don't have 4 ads on a single video, not to mention each and every video has ads on it, and that's not taking into addition the banner ads plastered all over each page.

Slowly but surely, YouTube is turning into an ad platform rather than a video platform. They'll tell you "oh just buy YouTube premium and you won't see ads", but that's about as untrue a statement as could be made about YouTube Premium. The banner ads are still there, NO ADS, means NO ADS. YouTubes pages are starting to look like spam and scam filled early 2,000's forums more and more these days and that's truly about as regressive as a company could be.

We The People, in allowing YouTube and google to get away with this for so long without any pushback whatsoever, is half the reason Google has grown into such a dominating force in the tech industry. It's time it's dialed back, as this has become utterly ridiculous.

Date of experience: April 4, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Beware of scams
March 28, 2023

Hi there, just giving everyone a heads up. The ads on YouTube are scams so beware. So do not click on them, YouTube won't do anything about it as the scams pay for advertisement

Date of experience: March 28, 2023
Florida
10 reviews
39 helpful votes
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They removed dislikes on comments and videos, put these annoying ads on literally every video with 1 thousand or more views even if you are not verified. I can't watch a YouTube short without getting a ad. Like YouTube you already have ads on regular videos. Sometimes I get weird Anime ads and people literally upload YouTube videos containing 18+ content [not all people on YouTube are like that]. Not only that but YouTube isn't doing anything to fix this.

Date of experience: March 24, 2023
Florida
10 reviews
39 helpful votes
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They removed dislikes on comments and videos, put these annoying ads on literally every video with 1 thousand or more views even if you are not verified. I can't watch a YouTube short without getting a ad. Like YouTube you already have ads on regular videos. Sometimes I get weird Anime ads and people literally upload YouTube videos containing 18+ content [not all people on YouTube are like that]. Not only that but YouTube isn't doing anything to fix this.

Date of experience: March 24, 2023
Massachusetts
29 reviews
286 helpful votes
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Youtube is constantly demonetizing content on youtube, such as when they added a new 8 second rule in which you essentially need to keep the first 8 seconds of your video PG (no swearing or violence) or you'll get demonetized. This is very frustrating for those content creators that have made content over the years and monetized, only to one day get punished for a new rule that every old video is required to follow for monetization. Not only are content creators constantly getting demonetized, but the ads that youtube displays are weird asf. I'll be watching and enjoying some youtube video and then I see sexualized ads display in the corner...like REALLY? You demonetize videos just for saying a swear word during the first 8 seconds of a video yet post questionable ads on the corner? Dissapointing. I would give youtube 0 stars if I could

Date of experience: March 19, 2023
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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March 20, 2023

My youtube chennel watch time in low now i'am agree watch time long video and wath hours review youtube

Date of experience: March 18, 2023
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This app is run by greedy children trying to force you to buy their Premium b.s. You can't even watch a video in its entirety without an ad interupting. But plays the ads without a problem. Then asks if your still there after listening or watching 1 video. Go F yourself.

Date of experience: March 10, 2023
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'VE ENJOY USING THIS YT PALS FREE YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS, IT REALLY HELPED ME OUT GAIN MORE EFFECTIVE REAL SUBSCRIBERS.

Date of experience: March 9, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ending
March 8, 2023

My step son does videos and they canceled his videos for repitive videos even though they are not. But what is up with ryans playhouse or what ever its called. Youtube sucks they just dont want to pay when you finally have a following.

Date of experience: March 8, 2023
New Mexico
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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So amazing I don't get bored and i can upload videos so I can have subscribers for play buttons and so i can have fun!

Date of experience: March 7, 2023
Kentucky
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Youtube plays the same ad videos over and over and over and over and over and over. It's daunting to watch youtube these days.

Date of experience: March 3, 2023
Georgia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I am so sick and tired of turning on my TV and having to sign in once again. This is happening like every couple weeks and I have to go to my phone and sign in on my phone to sign in on my TV which I was on this morning. This is getting to be a real pain and I'm seriously considering canceling my YouTube account for $11.99 a month. I'll just watch the ads. Instead of having to put up with this continually signing in. Never had a problem before but obviously somebody else is running YouTube now and thinks it's cool to have customers continually having to sign in. Well you know you where you can stick it YouTube

Date of experience: March 1, 2023