Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "YouTube's Next Chapter Under Neal Mohan (New CEO)" video.

  1. All that NFT and Block Chain talk has made the general public uneasy. Perhaps if he were to make some sort of statement to reassure the public, he might regain some trust? But Google and YouTube in particular don’t seem to care about what the public thinks of them at all, and it doesn’t sound like it would be his style to even discuss what he really thinks about anything? I had to abandon the Google search engine when I could no longer get quick, reliable information without having to trawl through the ad stuffing and discern fact from advert for myself. I have disliked the way they’ve been going for over a decade now. I went to Bing, as that ChatGPT is really useful for rolling several searches into one, once you get the hang of it. Even more so now that I can do so via pure conversation without having to touch a keyboard. It reminds me that the keyboard has long been viewed as the, “last obstacle,” between the user and their interface, by the tech giants. Never thought I would ever Bing things, or trust Microsoft’s aggressive monetisation models ever again, having switched all my tech to Apple years since. But their search engine works super efficiently, if you’re willing to teach yourself a little bit about it and know the value of cross referencing. So this new YouTube guy is a cypher, if we’re honest. But I didn’t invest in Nebula because I liked watching more and more ads on YouTube. My test for him would be: Can he seek that holy grail of, “growth, growth, growth,” that all these tech bros obsess about, in new and innovative ways that DON’T rely on more and more Ad interruptions? If he finds a way to create fresh revenue streams from new innovations, I’ll call that a success. As it is, YouTube’s quality has been downgrading for a long time now, mostly because of grasping ads, but also because of its obtuse policing system and apparent hatred of doing what it’s meant to do: promote comment and interaction with the videos. I honestly think they would get rid of comments altogether if they could. They certainly discourage them and make it harder to comment, edit comments and respond to comments, every year.
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