CrinkzPipe Posted:

Youtube has made me hate it more than anything else in the past month.

New layout and awesome new video mode.

Awesome new video mode turned out to be the joke and not the layout.

Now can make people charge to watch things. Log in to see images!

Amazingly, the Forumwarz Orange analogy still holds with what you just said.

sdgrbbum09 Posted:

Youtube is abandoning their original intentions and becoming corporate whores, just like Myspace, Facebook, Last.fm, etc.

This.

YouTube is Google’s closest bumet to a social networking site, and many of the changes implemented in the last two years have been aimed at maximizing this appeal. With enough traffic, even a moronic PPV service will get buyers, CrunchyRoll being a spectacularly awful example.

Like many of the “manias” of the past few years, I don’t think people will care much at all unless Google really steps over the line. Even then, I’m not sure if complaining will be effective (it hasn’t thus far). I’ve been expecting the Gmail space quota to be cut for nearly three years now.