I never noticed this, is it just when they say "smash this like button" or just the term "like button"?
The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#22I can't be the only one who finds this and the subscribe animations distracting, to put it politely. I'm sure many here would love to make use of some uBlock Origin rulesets to disable them?
I wouldn't bother dealing with it. But you can use something like StyleBot or Tampermonkey to override the css:
Before Animation:
While Animation:
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#23All that AI CapEx: for a button to glow! WOW. ROI will be off the charts!
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#24I never noticed this, is it just when they say "smash this like button" or just the term "like button"?
Unsure on the specific phrases, but it has been happening for a while. Subscribe highlights with certain phrases too.
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#25I know this is just a fun little easter egg, but features like this seems a little risky to me. It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can…
> It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can teach Google about me based on the videos I watch.
How else do you think the "up next" and "recommended videos for you" feature works? Did you think they were serving up relevant videos purely out of chance? If anything a dumb rule like "highlight the subscribe button if the transcript mentions it" is much more benign then a recommendation engine that can somehow always serve you a relevant video.
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#26I know this is just a fun little easter egg, but features like this seems a little risky to me. It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can…
> It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…
The simplest recommender would use videos that were commonly watched afterwards by other people.
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#27Given that YouTube uses the like and subscribe buttons as inputs for its recommendation algorithm, doesn't this feature just aid and abet content creators in gaming YouTube's system?
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#28I know this is just a fun little easter egg, but features like this seems a little risky to me. It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can…
> It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…
You don't necessarily need to analyze every word in every video for recommendations- it could be as simple as 'users who liked this video also liked these other videos'
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…
The simplest recommender would use videos that were commonly watched afterwards by other people.
That would be fun to exploit. Just get a few hundred accounts, have them watch a Mr. Beast video followed by a video you want to boost, and watch the numbers grow
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#30I know this is just a fun little easter egg, but features like this seems a little risky to me. It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can…
Was this not already highlighted by ContentID, automatic topic tagging/recommendations, and auto-caption?
I honestly suspect this feature is just implemented as a side effect as the auto-captioning... and now I'm a bit curious if carefully crafted manual captions can trigger it to go off continuously.