YouTube still hasn't stopped the hordes of fake accounts that spam every top creator's new videos.
Ex. PewDiePie video has a dozen comments from fake PewDiePie accounts (name, avatar) posting about "contest" link.
YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
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#22Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
There's a (fake) setting to globally disable annotations? Even if it doesn't work as Google describes it, I'm interested.
There's been one in the playback settings for years. https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#23Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
Agreed, but this move seems like a grab at Patreon and self promotion in general. Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.
> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.
No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0]
[0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...
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#24An important note here, if you cannot enable monetize videos, YouTube will not allow you to link to patreon or other sites. https://i.imgur.com/byCxnAj.jpg Its not enough for Google to ban you from ads, they have decided to cut off any other funding source aswell...
I really don't understand how they have made it to this point.
The government doesn't try to prevent monopolies anymore, and once you're a monopoly you have more than enough power to stop competitors if you pay even a modicum of attention to them
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#25From the article it sounds like it's more cracking down on people who rip off other people's content and then use the link cards to get referral traffic to their own properties. I don't think legitimate creators need to be concerned. From the article, the minimum requirement to be a partner is 10K public views. That's a relatively low bar, and you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view co…
> you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view count anyway.
Urm, why? Not everyone is in it for the advertisement money. Want to direct someone to a charity instead of supporting you? Not unless you're 10k+ Patreon? 10k+ Blueprints for the table you just built on screen? 10k+
Not to mention one of the requirements to be a partner is that your content is advertiser friendly. If you make videos about videogames, like Destiny 2, that rules you out.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like a better approach would be to just get rid of those annotations. I don't know how anyone ever thought that was a good idea. But YT should let them link externally. Site's like Patreon are beneficial to everyone involved.
I've been watching tutorial videos on software packages recently, and one really nice use case for annotations is that if there is out of date information in a specific sentence, they can just annotate it with the newer info instead of redoing the entire video. It's also helpful when they use the links as intended, like the video links to its own follow up video at the end.
Yea, this is the case with almost every channel I watch. I've found annotations and links to be used responsibly and to usually be helpful.
I can totally see how these features could be abused by some channels, though.
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#27From the article it sounds like it's more cracking down on people who rip off other people's content and then use the link cards to get referral traffic to their own properties. I don't think legitimate creators need to be concerned. From the article, the minimum requirement to be a partner is 10K public views. That's a relatively low bar, and you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view co…
> you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view count anyway. Urm, why? Not everyone is in it for the advertisement money. Want to direct someone to a charity instead of supporting you? Not unless you're 10k+ Patreon? 10k+ Blueprints for the table you just built on screen? 10k+ Not to mention one of the requirements to be a partner is that your content is advertiser friendly. If you make vid…
What’s wrong with links in the description box in that case?
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#28From the article it sounds like it's more cracking down on people who rip off other people's content and then use the link cards to get referral traffic to their own properties. I don't think legitimate creators need to be concerned. From the article, the minimum requirement to be a partner is 10K public views. That's a relatively low bar, and you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view co…
> you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view count anyway. Urm, why? Not everyone is in it for the advertisement money. Want to direct someone to a charity instead of supporting you? Not unless you're 10k+ Patreon? 10k+ Blueprints for the table you just built on screen? 10k+ Not to mention one of the requirements to be a partner is that your content is advertiser friendly. If you make vid…
I think outside of a YouTube network, 10k views equals about $0.10 in advertising money. So it's not even worth to donate this to charity.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, but this move seems like a grab at Patreon and self promotion in general. Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.
> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up. No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0] [0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...
Wow, that is utterly disgusting and an attack on their own user base.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view count anyway. Urm, why? Not everyone is in it for the advertisement money. Want to direct someone to a charity instead of supporting you? Not unless you're 10k+ Patreon? 10k+ Blueprints for the table you just built on screen? 10k+ Not to mention one of the requirements to be a partner is that your content is advertiser friendly. If you make vid…
What’s wrong with links in the description box in that case?
Many people ignore them and on mobile viewers need to do extra steps to even be able to see the description.