YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 12:50 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #191

nocturnial wrote: post #173

I really love the way it connects people, but... Doesn't anyone question that youtube is basically run by an ad service? If you really want to connect to people then why does "company x" wants to know and keep tabs? Why is there a thumbs up or down in the first place? Or even, why doesn't the number of views matter to you in this case. "company x" had a great search engine but now it seems crippled by the fact you ca…

Agreed. The especially weird thing for me is that when I suggest ads are perhaps not great, I get energetic replies along the lines of "why do you hate newspapers/TV/video and want to kill them!1!" I think of the ad ecosystem as like a tree that has grown so tall and dense that little can grow beneath it. If that tree weren't there I don't think we'd have nothing. I think we'd have a richer ecosystem with many more t…

Post by helmsdeep » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

Post by chronogram » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 1:32 PM UTC

ddalex wrote: post #163

NikolaNovak wrote: post #10

This is... fascinating on a very personal level. I've never been a "YouTube" guy; I'd rather skim/read an article than watch a video. I've never binged, never clicked-clicked-clicked my night away on Youtube, and generally when sent a 17 minute video tutorial, ask/search if there's a 30 seconds writeup. But this... this is mesmerizing. As cheesy as premise may be, you do feel a little like an outsider voyeur - not in…

Absolutely brilliant point. In the same vein of avoiding bubbles, I browse reddit by 'Top Of The Hour'. Filtrated enough to be decent quality, very fresh content, and not yet subverted by bubble affiliation or mind hiveing.

Post by 0xcde4c3db » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

ignaloidas wrote: post #135

gregmac wrote: post #121

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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 foun…

Clean it of trash and you will receive less trash recommendations. Fully cleaning isn't effective as the average video quality is lower than most HN public would like to watch. Having mostly good videos you like makes it recommend more similar content to you.

Post by doh » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

hnarn wrote: post #124

doh wrote: post #116

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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 -> unl…