• DarkThoughts
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    93 months ago

    *Only directly misleading clickbait. So they’ll continue to promote other forms of clickbait like specific thumbnails or capitalized & ambiguous titles.

    • TheRealKuni
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      33 months ago

      Of course they will, The Holy Algorithm loves that stuff. It’s why even some respectable creators have to stoop to that frustrating nonsense.

      • DarkThoughts
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        53 months ago

        They don’t have to, they choose to. There’s still people like Etho who don’t even ask for people to sub and post incredibly infrequently and still successfully maintain their views and audience simply through quality content. It’s more a matter of whether you do YT for yourself, or for the money. And nowadays the majority of people do it for the money. That’s why the content has become so piss poor over the years too. It’s all just commercialized garbage.

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          It’s more a matter of whether you do YT for yourself, or for the money.

          Frankly, the people doing the former should be leaving Youtube for Peertube. I feel like Fediverse advocates ought to be trying to figure out ways to court them.

        • TheRealKuni
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          23 months ago

          One of the greatest channels on YouTube, in terms of quality content, is Mentour Pilot (and his other channel, Mentour Now). He releases videos weekly, I think. They’re remarkably high production value, well-researched, well-written, informative, and fascinating.

          His thumbnails and many of his titles are awful. Clickbait, capitalization, arrows pointing at stuff, etc.

          There are of course people who do the clickbait stuff and make terrible content.

          There are people who don’t do the clickbait stuff, some of whom make good content and some who make terrible content.

          Whether you try to get as much value from the platform as you can doesn’t indicate the quality of your work. Some people play the game, some don’t.

          • DarkThoughts
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            23 months ago

            And I block everyone who does, since I have no way of judging the content other than the low quality titles & thumbnails. I’m dubious about allegedly well researched content though. Lot’s of people for example recommend Perun, or Kurzgesagt too, which are both awful.

            • TheRealKuni
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              13 months ago

              That’s fair. If you have even the slightest appreciation for aviation, I really do recommend Mentour Pilot. His video recently about the LionAir 737-MAX8 crash was phenomenal, and a perfect example. Extremely clickbait-y title and thumbnail, but a rock-solid hour-long dive into the final report, including details of the preceding flights.

              • DarkThoughts
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                13 months ago

                I don’t, not that much anyway. But I’m even more allergic to clickbait than I am to ads, and I run ad blockers since their invention. If I ever click on a clickbait video I feel dirty and soon after even more determined to block those channels. So I quite literally just can’t.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    I logged off and then started looking for titties…the tape project, dancers wearing next to nothing, African tribe dancing naked, body paint, see thru lingerie hauls, cleaning naked hauls, breast feeding tities…my YouTube is now embarrassing pornographical without me loving in.

    YouTube is not for kids.

    • TheRealKuni
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      33 months ago

      How else are people at religious colleges with internet filters supposed to masturbate?

  • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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    What the hell is wrong with the people here? Actual positive news for a while and what does Lemmy have to say? Complaining and cynicism. No wonder you’re so miserable all the time.

    • @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      I haven’t seen any of the usual self-righteous “I only use self-hosted video services” comments in here yet though.

    • @LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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      173 months ago

      For years, every update YouTube has had has made the platform worse. I think its valid to doubt this will improve anything. That being said, I agree with you. Lemmy as a whole needs to calm down a bit and stop being so damn negative about everything.

      • sunzu2
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        Hating corporate is a warranted approach

        They are not people, they are hostile threat actors.

        Why are you shocked they get treated as such?

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      43 months ago

      Misleading titles and thumbnails are against YouTube terms of service for as long as I can remember. Those are options to select when reporting videos.

        • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          Years ago, I reported maybe 3 or so videos because the thumbnail wasn’t slightly misleading or exaggerated but completely different from the content. Nothing ever happened. DeArrow fixes the problem to a degree.

  • @_sideffect@lemmy.world
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    1393 months ago

    Yeah sure they will. They’ll target small creators, but keep shit heads like the scammer Paul, the fake philanthropist Beast, and others

    • sunzu2
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      433 months ago

      Top talent who made careers on clickbait will not be harmed

      Pedophiles on set, no problem

      Scamming people, no problem

      Advertising and selling spoiled food, no problem

      Say suicide, demonetized 🤡

      • @Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        93 months ago

        Youtube will age restrict songs in my playlist with a word “fuck” in title but won’t do anything about unrestricted animated gore on a channel of a studio that does kid animations that I’ve reported long ago. 🙃

  • @whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    153 months ago

    Smells like PR copy parading as news, what click bait was actually removed vs what they said they would? What’s the criteria to qualify as click bait?

    • graff
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      23 months ago

      Writing (not clickbait) in the title obviously

    • Pika
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      YouTube says the policy will combat “egregious” clickbait that misleads viewers, with a particular focus on videos related to “breaking news” or “current events.” The company’s examples of egregious clickbait include a video with the title “the president resigned!” that doesn’t actually address a resignation or a “top political news” thumbnail attached to a video with no news content.

      sounds like anything that says it’s one thing but does a whole different thing

      Sadly it’s only in India atm, and doesn’t result in a strike(yet) so I doubt many are going to care.

  • @dan@upvote.au
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    593 months ago

    Shout out to DeArrow, from the same developer as SponsorBlock. It replaces video titles and thumbnails with community-provided non-clickbait versions. Available as a browser extension, and is also built-in to several third-party YouTube apps, such as SmartTube.

    • @dax@feddit.org
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      123 months ago

      I feel a bit conflicted about that, do I want that extension to hide the terrible clickbaity titles and thumbnails? For me that’s a good reason to not watch these videos in the first place

      • smokebuddy [he/him]
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        13 months ago

        I just saw a video posted here about how Tyler Oliveria is a liar and his content is bogus, but when youtube kept pushing that garbage at me the over the top AI thumbnails were enough to tip off it was going to be shit, and I had blocked him months ago lol

      • @Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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        13 months ago

        YouTube basically completely stopped recommending me those videos years ago because it learned I never click on them.

    • @RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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      I heard Facebook is spent tons of money to combat election misinformation in 2016 and 2020 and I heard the same story again in 2024. The problem is solved right?

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    1313 months ago

    So, they created an algorithm that will only reward clickbait and completely ignore honest titles and thumbnails, then complain about their platform being one giant clickbait? Huh…