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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by jackmott42 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

Not as bad as the look of conservative voices since 2016

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Post by sph »

411111111111111 wrote: post #233
seydor wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also not SHORTS really trying SHORTS to mix its content nicely SHORTS because i seem to find its recommendations boring SHORTS and often can't find videos that SHORTS i know should be there. Maybe SHORTS i should be using bing search to find youtube videos. Yandex also has a nice video search

And if you start browsing shorts you're bound to get the same <9 creators ad nauseam with duplicates mixed in all the time. It's a terrible experience, honestly.

The YT recommendation system is basically "we know what you want to watch better than you do", so it keeps blatantly ignoring any opposite signal.

No, I do not want to watch wedding videos that I've said I'm not interested in at least 50 times. No, there isn't anyone in my household watching wedding videos.

No, I do not want to rewatch a 6 hour long lecture I watched last month.

Yet it just doesn't bloody care. I am truly terrified to click on anything outside my regular comfort zone for fear that that's what I'll be recommended for the next 12 months. Youtube is the worst product I have to keep paying for — I tried going adblock, but good luck if you have Apple devices. I'd rather be held hostage to Youtube Premium than being brainwashed with ads every 5 minutes.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by eastbound »

dmonitor wrote: post #197
progbits wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does everything have to keep innovating? Youtube was fine years ago. People make stuff, I subscribe and watch it. Sure throw in some algorithmic discovery on the side. Bring back dislike count. Other than that I don't care for any innovation. Just keep the lights on.

The nature of The Algorithm and its tendency to decide who gets to be a millionaire leads to a TON of metagaming. I think the algorithm needs to be non-static just so content on the website doesn’t homogenize. They often make subtle tweaks to the website for seemingly no reason, but I think a lot of it is just to prevent metagaming.

> The nature of The Algorithm and its tendency to decide who gets to be a millionaire leads to a TON of metagaming.

Every corporation owning more than 50% of a market should be broken up. But then, USA wouldn’t reign on the international culture.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by kentlyons »

kentosi wrote: post #212

Dear Youtube: Please please please have an option to filter out "shorts" on the web version. None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.

I use an extension to remove them - no affiliation but it seems to work. Chrome: "No YouTube Shorts". Between that, a plugin to remove already watched videos and my ad blocker, youtube is a way better experience!

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

Wow, that literally doesn't matter at all.

There's absolutely nothing stopping Congress from issuing her a direct subpoena.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by ctvo »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

Do you think this is as big or even bigger than the silencing of conservative voices revealed in the "Twitter Files"?

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Post by theGnuMe »

nperez wrote: post #219

There is so much untapped potential in Youtube right now. Hopefully new leadership means improvements in YT Live and YT Music, both of which feel like afterthoughts even though they have large competitors.

They have Sunday ticket now which could be a game changer.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by pfannkuchen »

jackmott42 wrote: post #251
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

Not as bad as the look of conservative voices since 2016

Is this a form of synesthesia?

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by epistasis »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

I don't think this press looks bad, it merely looks like partisan bickering without substance. Particularly with how widely publicized it is that YouTube facilitates radicalization towards right wing ideologies in the past. Resigning after those allegations wouldn't have looked bad either.
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