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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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I don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck Do you see a bunch of spam comments? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking them?

I see "Video unavailable" + "Comments are turned off"

Very strange. Yours must be from a different cache.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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.

yea I'm a daily users of YT. Pay for premium. Don't produce. Only consume. Probably their ideal customer and I think the app is great. No idea what people are bitching about.

I don't currently pay for premium, but have and am considering it again with Netflix pulling their BS.

Nothing about Youtube the platform needs to change. It just works.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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/…

It’s a coincidence. This had to be in works for months (or something substantial had to go down). Also, they get subpoenaed all the time across various committees.

Yeah exactly, this level of resignation is in the works for months

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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…

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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.

> Bring back dislike count. Not to mention "sort by oldest first".

use 'before:$year' ( eg. "funny clips before:2018" ) is our current saviour.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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YouTube started out as a site that gave the middle finger to (c)opywrong laws, and it still has that spirit alive, while growing into an incredible resource to learn and grow. It's also damn fast and easy to publish to. Thank you Susan!

> YouTube started out as a site that gave the middle finger to (c)opywrong laws, and it still has that spirit alive,

no it doesn't has that spirit anymore, channels who get too many copyright strikes get banned.

Why do you even credit "Susan" for any of that? She isn't a Youtube founder, but a pure product of Google culture.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Is it? I see in the network requests where the "likes" button data is returned, but not the dislikes. It's possible I just can't find it though - there's a lot of data in a lot of shapes.

The dislike count is from an external tracker, not YouTube's own data.

That makes way more sense, but seems like it's a useless feature. I would assume that in that case it would be dislikes from the add-on (or some sort of federated dislike space?), which is really just going to tell you the opinions of people who like disliking things so much they downloaded an add-ons just to see others down-vote it as well.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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/…

Republicans have been complaining about perceived persecution for years (decades), there's no real Youtube-related news in the fact that they are asking companies about it now that they have a house majority...

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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.

yea I'm a daily users of YT. Pay for premium. Don't produce. Only consume. Probably their ideal customer and I think the app is great. No idea what people are bitching about.

Same. Really like YT. The algorithm is not great, but compared to other parts of the internet, YT is top tier for me.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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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/…

Imagine going through life giving "pro PR tip"s when you're this ignorant of where true power lies.

Tech companies have not feared the US government in decades. They embarrass or ignore US senators and representatives. See former (yes, they can subpoena you after you leave the company) Twitter employees embarrassing Donald Trump at these same hearings last week.

The more likely conspiracy theory is Wojcicki lost an internal power struggle. Google hasn't been doing great. Pichai hasn't been doing great. Wojcicki going for the top job and not getting it, and leaving is a much more believable scenario.

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