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Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by NoPicklez »

rambambram wrote: post #42

Youtube must know better than me what to recommend me out of all the videos... still, I get presented the same shite again and again. To be fair: not everything is shite and Youtube is my favorite social media (especially for discovering new music), but I noticed a big drop in quality videos from one day to the other a couple of years ago. Just opening up Youtube one day and seeing all kinds of thumbnails with people…

I stopped having that issue when I was subscribed to the pages I enjoyed watching and watched that content. Without that its just going to throw you random popular content.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by tombert »

shiroiuma wrote: post #215
tombert wrote: post #51

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Ugh. I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a very strong, borderline-irrational distaste for ads. I hate advertising, I hate having to watch advertisements, I will go out of my way considerably to avoid ads. I have over 400 blu-rays specifically because I wanted to guarantee that I don't have to risk seeing ads in my media. I liked YouTube Premium because it was an ethical way to avoid ads on YouTube; there's alw…

>I have over 400 blu-rays specifically because I wanted to guarantee that I don't have to risk seeing ads in my media. Don't Blu-Rays and DVDs have unskippable ads built in, including the FBI notice?

Not if you rip them :)

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by anon84873628 »

GuB-42 wrote: post #88
tombert wrote: post #36

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I suspect they're going to soon do what Amazon did as well, where they start putting ads into the regular YouTube Premium service, and charge an extra $3 a month for a completely ad free experience. I have the family plan shared across six accounts, and it went to $26, which really isn't that much but I'm not entirely sure why they're doing it.

Why would they? The entire point of YouTube Premium is removing ads. There are a few other benefits, but being ad-free is the big one. If they put back ads, I believe that most people will simply cancel their subscription and get a renewed interest in ad-blockers. It makes more sense to just increase the price, as they do. It is not like Amazon. Most people get Amazon Prime for the "free" shipping, and Prime with ads…

By the way, one of the Premium features is to be able to skip over in-video sponsored segments.

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Post by croes »

stronglikedan wrote: post #45
croes wrote: post #30

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proportionally the same as everywhere else, so insignificant for comparison

Proportionally to the content or proportionality to the viewed content?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12169571/

I personally have never seen the same BS on a Disney site that I have seen on Youtube

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by croes »

squigz wrote: post #60
loevborg wrote: post #43

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I agree. I wonder how people are motivated to comment if they can't even track replies or check likes. It certainly completely kills motivation for me

Do you and GP not get notifications for replies and (at least some) likes?

I get the notifications but it’s sometimes hard to know for which comment if it’s more than one in a discussion.

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Post by vivzkestrel »

- with a search bar that absolutely refuses to do what it was intended to do for the point where

- a third person had to step in and create a search bar for it right here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655392

- i am amazed i dont see a single person complaining about this at any conference, at any google IO event, i live 10000 miles away from california but if I could barge in on a Google IO with Sundar Pichai giving a keynote, I would totally ask him why they broke search

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Post by kimjune01 »

rambambram wrote: post #42

Youtube must know better than me what to recommend me out of all the videos... still, I get presented the same shite again and again. To be fair: not everything is shite and Youtube is my favorite social media (especially for discovering new music), but I noticed a big drop in quality videos from one day to the other a couple of years ago. Just opening up Youtube one day and seeing all kinds of thumbnails with people…

ishitani

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Post by xboxnolifes »

jamesfinlayson wrote: post #216
BloondAndDoom wrote: post #191

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Lowkey one the best things about LLMs, finally we have truly indexed YouTube which made up a massive amount of knowledge consumable and searchable in text format. I hate watching YouTube videos but like the information they provide between Youtube’s AI feature and Perplexitiy etc. Video indexing, it’s been a life saver.

Agreed - I've never followed YouTube that closely but apparently there was a time where everyone thought that YouTube favoured videos that were around 10 minutes in length... so everyone padded their short videos to 10 minutes.

It wasn't about favoring them. Videos needed to be 10 minutes long to get mid-roll ads.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

dyauspitr wrote: post #230
lairv wrote: post #217

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Worth noting that most of youtube videos can no longer be discovered through search. Search results can now only be sorted by "Relevance" and "Popularity" while you used to be able to sort by release date Search results are also non-exhaustive and biased towards recent videos as noted in this study https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 Basically many videos can no longer be discovered if you don't have a url to the video…

The non exhaustive thing is annoying as hell. You might as well delete old videos because there’s no way to get to them if you don’t remember the link. I used to be able to find this video I took in college 20 years ago. There’s just no way for me to get to it anymore.

Is that related to freetube removing the video tab (of a channel), sort by age dropdown menu?

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Post by dyauspitr »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #249
dyauspitr wrote: post #230

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The non exhaustive thing is annoying as hell. You might as well delete old videos because there’s no way to get to them if you don’t remember the link. I used to be able to find this video I took in college 20 years ago. There’s just no way for me to get to it anymore.

Is that related to freetube removing the video tab (of a channel), sort by age dropdown menu?

I don’t know. All I know is the video I’m looking for has a very unique title and used to come up as the main search result less than 3 years ago and it’s unfindable now. It’s from 2006.
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