[rvanmil]

I'm subscribed to the Premium Family plan to get rid of the ads and for the music service, which I think at the current price is a great deal. I just wish they would add more options to the premium plan, like:

- add proper filters (e.g. for sponsored content, low effort content creators, any content about spending/winning money, other obvious nonsense which exists just to increase views, etc. etc.)

- detect and filter generated and other low effort crap content

- add proper parental controls (it's a family plan, after all and YouTube Kids does not count, it sucks)

- disable Shorts (if there's one thing that's going to make me cancel my subscription it's the cancer that is Shorts)

[mrweasel]

> - detect and filter generated and other low effort crap content

> - disable Shorts

Absolutely. YouTube Premium has been one of my most used streaming service and the one where I've gotten the most value, but no more. I'm not sure if they changed their recommendation algorithm but it insists on pushing Shorts, auto-generated garbage, it doesn't react to any type of input and I'm afraid that the content it pushes is starting to affect my mental well-being.

I've been avoiding YouTube for a few days now and I now considering just cancelling, the ads will keep me away in the future, so in that sense it's nice that they help me not to return.