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Post by gregmac »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #73
ehsankia wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can click X on them and quickly remove them. If there's truly way too many (you left it open for hours), you can go to your Google's Activity page, filter youtube and delete everything from today with a button.

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Good idea to do a full reset periodically anyways to reset your recommendations.

Is it?

When I go to YouTube on a fresh device without being logged in, it's a pile of steaming clickbait and pop-internet-culture garbage. On my account, by contrast, YouTube is full of mostly great recommendations of high-quality content and I can pretty much always find several new and interesting things to watch should I feel like it.

(I watch stuff like Kurzgesagt, Smarter every day, AvE, Rick Beato, Today I found out, Wisecrack, Wendover Productions, Practical Engineering, Vox, Crash Course, SciShow... that's just from browsing my current recommendations. I would guess none of that shows up for fresh accounts)

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Post by marmshallow »

bksenior wrote: post #110
komali2 wrote: post #93

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Generally speaking, asking for help doxxing someone isn't considered kosher.

Ok. Well Id love to chat with him about @bksenior on any social platform. Thanks for the help. His idea is great.

Are you asking for information about the creator of astronaut.io or the lady reading her poem?

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Post by dusted »

Very interesting concept! I wish there were a bit more control, like being able to disable the automatic skip-to-next-video that happens after only a few seconds. Oh, you can, you need to press the round circle (which I mistook for a spinner-type indicator), icons that require you to first read instructions are bad icons. A button with a text on it, or a checkbox would have made more sense. But hey, it works, so it's cool!

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Post by hnarn »

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…

It sounds like you are aware that you are scraping videos that are later re-labeled as "unlisted", but you don't mention what you do to mitigate this problem.

Even if it may not be illegal, at the very least it would seem un-ethical to link to private videos like this, and it would seem trivial for you to "re-scrape" your database every now and then to check whether any existing videos have changed from listed -> unlisted, and if they have, remove them.

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Post by Firerouge »

gbudee wrote: post #62
_2d30 wrote: post #49

Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site: https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

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

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Post by icebraining »

nomel wrote: post #65
333c wrote: post #61

This is interesting and also worrying. The first video it found for me featured a medical patient giving away their full name and date of birth.

This can be found on many social media profiles. What’s the concern?

Those aren't usually connected to the person's medical problems.

That said, the "patient" may not be one; lots of trainee doctors and nurses use YouTube to show their abilities, using mock patients.

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Post by benj111 »

Firerouge wrote: post #126
gbudee wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

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

Have you never been on youtube before? If you don't get the down votes don't read the comments.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by bksenior »

marmshallow wrote: post #122
bksenior wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok. Well Id love to chat with him about @bksenior on any social platform. Thanks for the help. His idea is great.

Are you asking for information about the creator of astronaut.io or the lady reading her poem?

Creator of astronaut.io
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