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Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by Suppafly » Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 10:13 PM UTC

rezonant wrote: post #149

Suppafly wrote: post #143

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Man I don't do rentals but I'd be pissed if I did and background play didn't work considering how much I've paid for premium over the years.

Agreed, but I imagine this might be a licensing restriction or something.

I think that's why the merged google music into youtube for youtube music, I imagine they had much better licensing terms on the youtube side.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#152

Post by Hunpeter » Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 10:49 PM UTC

A friend told me that the third video in the recommended list (the one that you see on the side when playing a video) often seems to be a (sometimes) barely related one from a small channel you've never watched. I can confirm the same happens to me.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#153

Post by varun_ch » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 6:53 PM UTC

verticalscaler wrote: post #100

zb3 wrote: post #5

Let me recommend this song: https://www.youtube.com/wach

https://www.youtube.com/wath ^ And that one pops a "confirm channel subscription" pop up - is this an inside joke or bug?

YouTube has a weird legacy feature that lets certain channels set up redirects to other channels (but can be pretty easily cheesed to redirect to arbitrary paths, like the subscription confirmation URL). This, combined with another legacy feature, non @handle, channel URLs (/c/username, which can be shortened to /username), is being abused to set up redirects on commonly mistyped URLs. People buy/hack old accounts that have these features available/have valuable channel URLs and use them like this.

There's a whole underground world of social media account trade for this.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#154

Post by verticalscaler » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 8:57 PM UTC

varun_ch wrote: post #153

verticalscaler wrote: post #100

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https://www.youtube.com/wath ^ And that one pops a "confirm channel subscription" pop up - is this an inside joke or bug?

YouTube has a weird legacy feature that lets certain channels set up redirects to other channels (but can be pretty easily cheesed to redirect to arbitrary paths, like the subscription confirmation URL). This, combined with another legacy feature, non @handle, channel URLs (/c/username, which can be shortened to /username), is being abused to set up redirects on commonly mistyped URLs. People buy/hack old accounts th…

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Very interesting.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#155

Post by xenophonf » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

refibrillator wrote: post #131

xenophonf wrote: post #130

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That would entail adding a branch instruction and risking a cache miss on every single video playback in order to save a couple hundred bytes in a data stream at least four orders of magnitude larger.

Speculating? I think branch predictors would eat this for lunch

Hence, my use of the word "risk".