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In the case of YouTube, it's not trash videos that frustrate me, it's YouTube's UI.

First, they have been injecting unrelated recommendations into search results, under headers like "For you" and "People also watched". I don't want to see a pimple-popping video when I'm searching for something related to woodworking. (That's an extreme example, but I have actually seen those types of videos injected into completely unrelated search results. In fact, I just did a search for "hand cut dovetails" as a test and YT recommended two different disgusting pimple/pore videos in the first few dozen results.)

Second, they don't admit that they are out of results. Instead, when search results dry up they coughing up unrelated recommendations so that you can keep scrolling forever. This makes it look like there are more results than there actually are, which is completely unhelpful.



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