Fucking YouTube is at it again, and you know what? I think Susan make a better YouTube CEO than the current retarded CEO, Luckily Revanced is a thing hopefully they patch it if it come true
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YouTube/Google and hiding data from the end-user, name a better duo.
Next What???? Removing Title, Only Thumbnail.
Gemini Ai makes up a title for you.
That's as cursed as I can make it.
The endgame will be Gemini generating videos based on the information they've harvested off you.
The title will be text to speech on mouse over.
The future is here.
Remove the user generated videos. Only title, videoads and comments allowed.
It's currently a race-to-the-bottom in big IT & tech, where they don't look how they get you to like them but how much they can get away with, without repelling most of their userbase.
In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don't want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.
As someone who tries to regularly post videos on YouTube I think this would help me, since I'm sure many people (including me, unfortunately) avoid low view count videos.
But I can absolutely understand why you wouldn't want it hidden. I'm sure this will lead to major misinformation clickbaiting (as if that isn't already a problem!), but I believe that the view count will still be visible on the view page.
Is YouTube doing it with small creators actually in mind? Who knows, other than them?
Edit: I do want to clarify that I think hiding the date it was posted is just strange and would probably only lead to problems
Is YouTube doing it with small creators actually in mind? Who knows, other than them?
I am pretty confident in guessing that they are not doing it for selfless reasons. Imo the reason is that the less information they give the user, the more you are beholden to the algorithm choosing for you.
But depending how they hide it it actually might not just be users, but also companies that e.g. buy ads from them. The less information they get, the more they need to trust whatever metric google offers them
I don’t like this idea for the opposite reason. I'm one of the people who are suspicious of videos with millions of views since most of them look manufactured. We all use view counts to gauge if a video is something we’re after, probably in more ways than we can come up with.
If it gives you any encouragement - I’m not discouraged by view counts. I know I like niche stuff and give small channels a try. It’s a chance at having more genuine interaction. As long as a video is not off-putting due to bad diction or very bad production then I’m not going to back out and see what it is about. This can work to your advantage too.
That's fair, and I'm more inclined to believe people on Lemmy would agree with your view thankfully! A lot of high view videos are for sure manufactured, and from what I can tell usually target children.
I guess we'll see how the landscape changes if this sticks around? We're all along for the ride, for the most part!
That makes sense. Youtube has mixed more and more small channels with low views into my feed for a couple of months.
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Who makes these retarded decisions?
MBAs
Hmm at a glance I dont see a major issue here, my concern would be that I dont click on vids with shit numbers so they are now on a more equal footing.
But it is better for people not to be so focused on numbers like removing number of likes on Instagram.
But it is better for people not to be so focused on numbers like removing number of likes on Instagram.
Is my mental health really something I want Google managing?
I don't mind seeing vids with small numbers (many are genuinely cool) but I avoid 500k and above (except music) because the mainstream is mostly clickbait.
I don't know what's up with the algorithm pushing these lately. If it's a video with 4 views from a channel with no subscribers I'm probably not interested in it. Sometimes they have a good thumbnail/title so I give them a chance but 9/10 times it's terrible. Also often extremely right wing for whatever reason.
Wouldn’t the YouTube creator need to see views for ad revenue? Are they removing them for viewers or creators too?
I've encountered so many AI generated videos that now I have to depend on view count since they removed dislike. And even view count doesn't work as well because people click on just to see why there are high view counts, turns out it's an AI video with high view count. Absolutely terrible practice. Youtube knows, they're not stopping
YouTube har made everyone using AI in their video declare it, but in not sure it matters when it comes to being pushed out.
Source: I was playing around with autogenerating YouTube shorts, YouTube did not make it easy
Alright now how do I filter out that A.I content. Chances are if you search up a tech question, there's an A.I video made from scraping websites and bot TTS
I don't think you can. But I know YouTube could
In 5 years:
Youtube tests small ads in the top corner during video playback.
In 10 years:
Youtube tests small increase in size of well established corner ads.
In 15 years:
Youtube graciously allows video playback inbetween ads
In 20 years, "YouTube was an online video sharing platform...."
I doubt they can make it to the next 20 years, the way they are controlling everything.
In 20 years:
Users can no longer upload and YouTube becomes just a CDN for Adsense.
(and the only way to watch old videos is through the Internet Archive)
"We can sell 80 percent of the screen before inducing seizures!"
86% if you disregard the mild ones!
sounds like another job for the return youtube dislikes guy
It’s already really difficult to engage with the content you want to see, but now they’re also taking away the only immediately noticeable metric of a successful video? Genuinely just why
Personally I find the highest viewed videos on YT to be the absolute shittiest ones.
Yeah, that’s kinda the problem too
They want to decide what you like and don't like. You WILL watch what THEY show you.
They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.
They want their algorithm to be the only thing that decides whether you watch a video or not.
That'll work excellent for all those people trying to find tutorial videos for 'XYZ' when you have no verification data to determine whether it's even a legit tutorial.
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Return youtube view counts, coming soon
YT Exec - /rips massive line of coke off Intern's ass/ - "Remove View Count"
YT Engineer - "But Sir, users will hate that. It will actively make the user experience worse"
YT Exec - "That's the goddamn point!"
This is inane but damn if it didn’t give me a good laugh :D
Intern - "You could at least give me reacharound while you're doing that"
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