YouTube recently reorganized their front page. Before I'd see videos from my subscriptions, and perhaps other videos from related channels that might interest me. Now all I see is the clickbaity high-volume crap. The stuff that gets miliions of views and therefore maximum incremental ad revenue for Google.

My wife has YouTube premium and I asked her what she sees on the front page. Same crap. But why must this be? If there is no advertising to be had, then why not serve the paying customer's interests? I'm on the verge of stopping watching altogether and I'm certainly not going to pay for it in its current form.

And in case anyone's wondering - I'm not eligible for the family rate for YT Premium. My email is on a vanity domain, and way back when I signed up for the free version of "Gmail for your domain", G suite was not yet a thing. Now it is, and Google considers my vanity domain to be a business service, so I am not eligible for the family rate, or the parental control plan for Android, etc.