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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by bobro »

AstixAndBelix wrote: post #221
progbits wrote: post #177

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Why does everything have to keep innovating? Youtube was fine years ago. People make stuff, I subscribe and watch it. Sure throw in some algorithmic discovery on the side. Bring back dislike count. Other than that I don't care for any innovation. Just keep the lights on.

>Why does everything have to keep innovating? would you like to remove the ability to add labeled chapters to your videos? would you like to remove browseable transcriptions to videos? Youtube has a ton of things that it still needs to add, such as embedding multiple audio streams so you can have more than one audio language in the same video (I think they are testing it currently), or being able to better modify a v…

I think theres a difference between innovating and polishing. I would love YT to polish the product, but don’t want it to innovate itself into something other than a medium length video hosting platform.

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Post by benjaminwootton »

systemvoltage wrote: post #287
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

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Yeah. I love YouTube and admire it as a business, but the censorship undermines everything and anecdotally seems to be getting worse.

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Post by mustacheemperor »

kentosi wrote: post #212

Dear Youtube: Please please please have an option to filter out "shorts" on the web version. None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.

I'd like the option to filter out cable tv news designed to emotionally outrage from my recommendations.

I'm well aware there is a land war in Europe right now, when I turn on the TV at 6pm on a Thursday to watch cooking videos I don't need reminders pushed in my face.

Out of all the issues with youtube, this is probably the one that has the most real negative cognitive impact for me.

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Post by ozten »

game_the0ry wrote: post #182

I was big time addicted to youtube for a while starting around 2010, mostly bc the recommended videos were so good and content that was uploaded was more raw and silly then now. But at some point the recommendations got really bad, so much so that it made it a lot less enjoyable. I miss those days.

Same here. I assumed there was less good content being made on YT. Or is it that the recommendation engine has gotten worse?

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Post by wintermutestwin »

joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

I'd happily pay for an ad-free Youtube if they weren't double dipping by stealing my data. When do consumers get a choice for stalker free content?

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Post by drusepth »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #292
systemvoltage wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Yeah. I love YouTube and admire it as a business, but the censorship undermines everything and anecdotally seems to be getting worse.

YouTube has forever had a moderation problem. What some people call censorship, others call moderating. I'm glad the comments/videos have improved significantly in quality the last ~year, due to what I assume is being attributed to censorship here.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

progbits wrote: post #186
Dylan16807 wrote: post #176

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It's not just made up, it tracks downvotes from extension users and combines them with a historical database. And I think some creators share new info with the database to help the accuracy.

Creators can only share own counts and would be heavily incentivized to lower their dislike count, no? How is this supposed to work?

I don't think many people are going to go through the trouble of offering to help and then feed in fake info, especially if they make awful videos and it's easy to guess what they're doing.

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Post by jabroni_salad »

peruvian wrote: post #222
Workaccount2 wrote: post #198

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The main criticism I see with YouTube is that it has too many ads, and the idea of paying for youtube is laughable. Basically, it's users are very entitled. Edit: I have had premium since day 1, I'm speaking about others.

If you really don't want to pay $15/mo, sign up using a VPN in a developing country. They don't check or care. You will need a fake address as well.

Just not ARS. Apparently they now check if the credit card making the payment is linked to an Argentinian bank.

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Post by rr888 »

40acres wrote: post #268
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Funnily enough I really like YouTube shorts. A lot of Tiktokers cross post and because of this I haven’t found a reason to download TikTok.

> I haven’t found a reason to download TikTok

Its a good business. My daughter isn't allowed Tiktok, but youtube comes with every phone and ipad already...

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