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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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3 helpful votes
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This Website Is WRONG!
October 25, 2022

This Website YouTube.com is wrong (First) It blocked me from commenting and I did NOTHING against any guidelines. If so, give me the date and time of this so I may see this and know what is going on, cause I did not do it. And, the comment box is for comments of ONE's OWN words NOT to be dictated by someone else's. I know I commented that the thumbnails to some videos were (and are) misleading with photos and when clicking on thumbnails the picture in thumbnail is NO WHERE in the video (ie: A Karen Videos of nosey prejudice etc. people) and that is misleading to have someone to look at those videos. And then YouTube.com has videos of Stars and Singers with titles under thumbnail that person is or has died (past away) and the Star and (or) Singer is VERY MUCH ALIVE. Why the families and even the Stars and (or) Singers do NOT SUE YouTube.com for that lying false thumbnail with video. Are these videos being viewed and investigated by YouTube.com STAFF for verification of TRUTH before ALLOWING the uploading of those and ANY videos. Go to YouTube.com and in their search type Gladys Knight Death, Diana Ross Death, and look up Karen Videos and my proof will be PROOVEN and shown PROOF.

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was paying 17.99 for membership after few months is increasing 5 more dollars. Only for skip iad. This is abusive

Date of experience: October 23, 2022
Pakistan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Really Great work!
October 21, 2022

This is so much helpful and enjoyable. They are working nicely are giving their best. Best wishes for them!

Date of experience: October 21, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've never seen a company be so greedy I don't want to watch ads so you're gonna basically try to break my phone over and over again taking minutes on minutes to load a video trying it's hardest to make me watch an ad all this service is is an ad bot you're much better off using twitch, hulu, Netflix, Disney+, paramount+, peacock, HBO max literally anything. Their premium service is 16 dollars so you don't have to watch ads pick any of the other ones I named and you could get 2 subscriptions to actual cable tv that is asked to be made and paid for, rather than dinky videos done by people at home, that barely get paid anything unless they're huge I think YouTube is scummier than twitch I think YouTube is the scummiest platform on earth I've never been more let down by a service consistently

Date of experience: October 21, 2022
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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IM TRYING TO PEACEFULLY WATCH A VIDEO BUT EVERY 10 SECONDS A $#*!ING AD POPS UP AND ITS REALLY ANNOYING DO ROT IN HELL YOUTUBE

Date of experience: October 20, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Too bad
October 18, 2022

Too much problem with copyright and unfair laws, you can not upload nothing there's always something

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
Georgia
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I haven't had anything good to say about YouTube for years. It is so hard to give the benefit of the doubt regarding a platform that cares more about making a few cents from advertisers than its users! The website has an issue of not communicating with its own employees let alone with the top creators, who then can inform everyone else.

The customer service is also terrible in regards to how buggy the whole platform is on any device. I wish it was actually user error, I wish clearing cache and "turning it off and on again" actually fixed anything. If only it was as simple as slow internet speeds and sucking it up. No! It has to do with the way the website is coded and there hasn't been any signs of it being fixed.

Date of experience: October 15, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I just don't understand
October 13, 2022

I just don't understand why YouTube has the worst video player out there. Why can't you rewind or do fast forward or start a video over from the beginning and you might as well forget about getting it to pause at a certain spot. I love the content they have but the video player ruins the whole experience so why do they make you use this trash is it because there so big they just don't care I wish someone would explain it to me because I just don't understand it at all

Date of experience: October 12, 2022
Pakistan
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Business clothes
October 13, 2022

Clothes business is good for Pakistan Pakistan testicle in Faisalabad and Karachi good please help to submit.

Date of experience: October 12, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Reverse this stupid decision or we will all find a better source for our news videos. Maybe you should consider the effect this will have on your market share and viewership. How can the market leader be so bloody stupid as to thoughtlessly shoot themselves in the foot.

Date of experience: October 8, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Youtube is Corrupt
October 4, 2022

You can no longer have a channel on youtube that allows you to be speak truthfully without getting cancelled. In all honesty youtube is falling from the throne it held for so long. It all started when they started striking channels and demonetizing them because they are not making content fro children. But this is a platform used globally by kids and adults equally. People used to be able to say whatever they pleased on this platform let it be satire, someones opinion, and or true facts about the world. Now you can't do anything without having to worry about getting cancelled!

Date of experience: October 4, 2022
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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There is no freedom of speech anymore. Say anything politically incorrect and your account gets banned and you get cancelled. Sadly this is the world we live in. Can't wait for these big tech companies to lose power. Can't wait for YouTube to die.

Date of experience: October 3, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Since google purchased YouTube it sucks! It is the worse video platform that exists period. I joined YouTube when it first came online. It was great for content creators as well as viewer. You could even monetize ( make money) on your site with few subscribers and likes. Any you could watch a video, and have maybe at most 4 ads which you could skip. With this business model it was great. You had many content creators that would give you useful advice FREE without trying to sell you there course.

Then Google bought YouTube, and everything went to hell. No you can't monetize your YouTube channel unless you 1,000 subscribers, 4,000 watch hours, and zero strikes on YouTube community guidelines. Keep in mind though that YouTube when you are watching a video now an ad usually plays at the start and about every 90 and over half of them you can't skip. So, now YouTube (Google) is making hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars on ads on content they did not even create, and you get nothing for your hard work on the content you created. So, that's FREE money for YouTube (Google) for doing nothing. Next this business model that YouTube (Google) has adopted has chased many good content creators away. I would say that more than three fourth of content creators now are creating videos to get you interested in a product or course there selling. The problem is there the only game in town because let's face it other video websites available are garbage. So, if anyone could ever create website similar to the old version of YouTube they could put YouTube out of business but I'm afraid it won't happen because YouTube has a monopoly, and Google will buy and close any one you tries. Well this is my opinion.

Date of experience: October 3, 2022
Nevada
5 reviews
47 helpful votes
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I miss old youtube
October 3, 2022

3 suspended accounts for no reason, my comments mysteriously dissappears on certain channels, no more dislike button was enough reason why I disabled youtube app on my phone, tablets. Everything goggle touches, it immediately goes to crapper.

Date of experience: October 3, 2022
Bulgaria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been watching youtube since it came out and I thought "Hm, why not write a review", after all its probably the website I have visited the most in the past few years. Its a great website, I just hope they didn't go so hard on the ads.

Date of experience: September 27, 2022
India
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Although YouTube offers great insights and a great way to target audiences, doing so requires expertise. For a direct-to-consumer firm, the incorporation of the Product list beneath the YouTube video ad feature is really helpful.

Date of experience: September 26, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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YouTube ads suck balls
September 21, 2022

A five minute video plus ads has gone up to 20 minute. There needs to be another mass shooting. It won't change anything, but it'll put a smile on my face.

Date of experience: September 20, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Youtube is dying
September 16, 2022

As a dying platform I was hit with multiple with community guideline strikes. They doin't care about content creators. They don't care about all the hard work we put into our videos. The same videos that are taken down, the same videos are still up on Youtube by other content creators. Its clear to me that the Youtube team does not care about their content creators. Google in general has major issues and I will no longer consume content on that platform.

Date of experience: September 16, 2022
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have mixed feelings. YouTube has good videos, but deletes things. Video with a song from a game, been up for at least 3 years, deleted NOW for no reason.

Date of experience: September 4, 2022
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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MD NOBI GEMAR
September 3, 2022

প্লিজ এই চ্যানেলে এক হাজার ভিউস কমপ্লিট করে দাও প্লিজ আমি নিয়মিতভাবে ভিডিও ছাড়বো। প্লিজ কমপ্লিট করে দাও

Date of experience: September 3, 2022