It drives me crazy how much this clutters search results. For years I would almost always sort by >20mins/upload date for whatever I was looking for (usually lectures/talks, hence the >20mins) but over the past few years where I used to get the most recent talk from $person, now I get a full page of reuploaded content from 1994, half of which is from the same spam user. Now my search of choice tends to be viewcount/<1month.

I now prefer mps-youtube for the majority of my youtube interaction. It's a gplv3 cli client, and then I just have VLC open up the video. No ads, no popups, no links.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

You know, a long time ago when google bought youtube I remember thinking to myself that it meant it was never going to be the same. After things like the google+ name fiasco, etc (Jawed Karim's first comment on youtube was: "why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?"), and many other scandals, and not seeing hardly a dent in their userbase, I wonder what it would take to get the users to another platform?