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Post by pgl »

doh wrote: post #116
chrsstrm wrote: post #9

Does this respect the 'unlisted' setting for a video? I recently uploaded some videos and set them all to unlisted, and yet some of them received views despite me not viewing them or handing out a link. I meant to dig into that more but forgot after getting distracted. Can unlisted videos be found by a program like this, which I assume is using the API?

We [0] index YouTube actively and see way over 5.5B videos [1] at this point. We catch a lot of unlisted videos and we did try to figure out how is that possible in the past. It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published with the default settings and thus is visible from the outside. Even if they change the settings fairly quickly, automated systems like ours will already know about the…

That blog post is missing most of the images, by the way. It makes the post a little difficult to understand as most of it is referencing the graphs!

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Post by shinkarom »

brokenmachine wrote: post #236
systemtest wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps YouTube applies vote fuzzing similar to Reddit.

What's vote fuzzing?

It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by thrifter »

I recently put forward the idea there's enough music in the world already[1] because millions of songs on Spotify have never been heard[2]. And of those millions of unheard songs, many are probably not by musicians but by "poseurs" who don't care about the craft of songwriting.

Perhaps we need something like Astronaut for Spotify?

[1] https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/poseur-approach-to-makin...

[2] https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/spotify-turns-5-reveals-theres-...

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by blackbrokkoli »

theon144 wrote: post #140

I kind of like the periodic switching and "hands-free" experience, but the idea itself isn't too original[0][1][2] and I am not a fan of the video taking up about 25% of my screen estate, the rest taken up by an unrelated, distracting stock space video. 0: http://defaultfile.name/ 1: https://www.randomlyinspired.com/noviews 2: https://www.incognitube.com/

Press "F" to go to fullscreen :)

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Post by Emma_Goldman »

I think this is an amazing way of both estranging us from humankind by viewing our world from the outside as if we were aliens, and of widening our horizons by giving us access to the immediate experience of people from all walks of life, all over the planet.

My only worry is that it selects for people who don't know or care to properly name their youtube videos, e.g. after watching for ten minutes, I'm yet to see a young person from the West. Though this is probably one of the reasons why, for me, the videos are so strikingly unfamiliar.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by doh »

pgl wrote: post #241
doh wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We [0] index YouTube actively and see way over 5.5B videos [1] at this point. We catch a lot of unlisted videos and we did try to figure out how is that possible in the past. It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published with the default settings and thus is visible from the outside. Even if they change the settings fairly quickly, automated systems like ours will already know about the…

That blog post is missing most of the images, by the way. It makes the post a little difficult to understand as most of it is referencing the graphs!

Checked in 4 different browsers and images show in all of them. Maybe your adblock is removing them?

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by cruano »

icebraining wrote: post #138
Firerouge wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?

I don't think I've ever seen a video with over 100 upvotes that didn't have any downvotes. That's just YouTube.

I found some obscure music video that had like ~200 likes with no downvotes but it didn't lasted long... not idea if it's bots that downvote stuff or just weird people (hate the word "haters" but that's what I mean)
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