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Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by spyder »

Mithaldu wrote: post #117
pokemon-trainer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who regularly searches IMG_0123 to see things like "mayonnaise man" before astronaut.io existed: you must share the link to the video. There's no excuse for the lack of a link. Also, this service does not work with iOS, which is a shame.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

Yes it's blocked by CSS: #player { pointer-events: none;} and it's against the YouTube TOS:

"G. if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Player including but not limited to links back to the Website;"

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by Mithaldu »

spyder wrote: post #131
Mithaldu wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

Yes it's blocked by CSS: #player { pointer-events: none;} and it's against the YouTube TOS: "G. if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Player including but not limited to links back to the Website;" https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Thanks for pointing that out, i raised the issue on their repository: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/issues/5

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by spyder »

Retra wrote: post #75
dmix wrote: post #3

About 50% of the videos were by Chinese people. Interesting to think how Asian a random sampling of the earth's population would be. North America is only 7.6% of the global population but overwhelmingly dominate in popular media. Great site.

It's not a random sampling of Earth's population. It's a random sampling of the "video uploader" population.

It's a random sampling of the "YouTube video uploader" population.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by RubyPinch »

monkeywork wrote: post #110
blakeyrat wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well for next time, maybe you could do this thing called "testing" or "QA" before you put a product out there for hundreds of people to use. EDIT: sorry I know it's negative, but while you're posting stuff about "oh I'm tearing up", what I'm seeing is some guy who wrote a website that steals people's videos without attribution . I realize you didn't "intend" it to do that, but that's what it's doing, and I don't have…

Oh and he isn't stealing... this would count as a view for them on YouTube and they get the revenue not him... if anything he is driving tonnes of views to them all at once. Those who rip the video and claim to be the creator on fbook is where you should aim your anger.

Short view times (e.g. opening a video, watching X seconds of it, thinking its going to be boring, and switching away from it) actually count as a negative in terms of youtube's internal rankings

(though this is just what I remember from a pewdiepie video on the topic, I may or may not be remembering correctly)

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by ChrisGranger »

koytch wrote: post #124

I'm stuck in a strange loop: videos change, but the music doesn't. I think it's Debussy, the effect is very strange (and nice too). Bug or not? :) Oh, and the small button below has disappeared.

It is indeed Debussy, "Clair de Lune" from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY although embedded on astronaut.io as http://astronaut.io/audio/debussy.mp4 ...

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by ChrisGranger »

yeukhon wrote: post #54

Nice idea, but the domain name - not a fan, just saying. I'd better reserved astronaut.io for something actually related to being an astronaut.

So amazon.com should be related to the Amazon rainforest? Domain names haven't worked like that since... ever.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by awqrre »

keyle wrote: post #63

This, really scared the crap out of me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaGFV-s3Hs ? [Edit] Maybe I'm wrong and I hope I'm wrong.

I've seen another one just like it but with a different girl... it seems a bit strange... (with the sheet of paper in-between her feet and everything).

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

#139

Post by timlyo »

Mithaldu wrote: post #117
pokemon-trainer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who regularly searches IMG_0123 to see things like "mayonnaise man" before astronaut.io existed: you must share the link to the video. There's no excuse for the lack of a link. Also, this service does not work with iOS, which is a shame.

You can't link, since whoever made this site disabled any and all controls on the videos. Even the youtube button in the corner is blocked off. This is one of the most evil implementations of video embedding i've ever seen.

If you're logged in then you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and find it.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by 91bananas »

RubyPinch wrote: post #135
monkeywork wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh and he isn't stealing... this would count as a view for them on YouTube and they get the revenue not him... if anything he is driving tonnes of views to them all at once. Those who rip the video and claim to be the creator on fbook is where you should aim your anger.

Short view times (e.g. opening a video, watching X seconds of it, thinking its going to be boring, and switching away from it) actually count as a negative in terms of youtube's internal rankings (though this is just what I remember from a pewdiepie video on the topic, I may or may not be remembering correctly)

Do you think people posting videos without taking time to edit the video's filenames are concerned with youtube rankings?
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