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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by jemmyw »

JAlexoid wrote: post #248
jemmyw wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You know that when a public pace of business has "No dogs" sign and you enter it, that you entered into a contract with that business You are incorrect about that, which probably invalidates your other arguments. A condition of entry is not a contract. If you disobey the condition of entry then you have not broken a contract, and nothing changes between you and the business owner. They can ask you to leave and they…

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As far as I can find, in the US and the UK, conditions of entry to a business are considered an implied license and not an implied contract because there's no mutual intent to form a binding legal agreement. A business can revoke the license and trespass you, but they cannot sue you for breach of contract.

A unilateral contract requires some kind of "promise accepted through performance"

I note that this does appear to be different under Australian law, if that is where you're from, although it's still not a unilateral contract.

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Post by nicce »

mc3301 wrote: post #208
nicce wrote: post #16

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I did that and now it shows only polarizing videos on the right from both ends.

Oh, mine shows no recommendations at all. Just a blank home screen. So I basically either watch my curated subscriptions or something I specifically searched for.

Yeah, home screen is empty. But if you open some video, recommendations on right are wild.

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Post by zamadatix »

tokai wrote: post #246
biff1 wrote: post #153

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Tell me what it means. Maybe you are right.

You called him racist. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Now I really want to know what you believe it means.

To hazard a guess: taking "fear of the foreign" as a generic "unfamiliar" rather than the literal "foreign" it's actually associated with.

I.e. perhaps meant something like neophobia.

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Post by left-struck »

com2kid wrote: post #112
dav43 wrote: post #89

It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts. The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.

Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!

Nah shorts have a different culture and style. I don’t mean anything technical. For me I can’t stand the style and I avoid it completely.

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Post by Tanoc »

theshrike79 wrote: post #430
herewulf wrote: post #329

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Except that those two things are fantastic indicators for videos / channels you should be avoiding. Hiding their foolishness and then watching them anyway rewards their behavior.

LTT specifically AB tested the stupid thumbnail vs relevant + titles. The idiotic clickbait images and titles WORK. People don't use them because they want to, they use them because they have to. Thus -> DeArrow. (Or follow the channels via an RSS feed and filter there)

There are great channels that have had acceptable audience growth without resorting to bucket scraping like that. In fact the channels I see that have the most engagement and the most stable view numbers video to video are the ones specifically avoiding the "gaping maw pointing at a red circle" sort of thumbnails and the "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT" or "X PHENOMENON - THE RESULTS WILL SHOCK YOU" titles. Knowing how Youtube works it's more of a detriment to have those unstable views because that screws with how well Youtube promotes you in the Recommended and Trending pages, and makes it harder to have high paying deals with sponsors since they don't know if your video's going to do five million views or seven hundred and fifty thousand. The only way you can make that work consistently is if you have a captive audience, but people do get tired of it quickly and will start to reflexively avoid your videos. They'll especially avoid them if someone else tried that clickbait format and annoyed or even offended them.

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Post by ruszki »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #396

On a sidenote, there is surprisingly no universal agreement on a default font size and "scaling" of a website. Common recommendation is font-size: 14px on html element, but I often encounter websites that are way off in scaling.

Isn’t the recommendation to not use px at all? Or just “Pepperidge farm remembers”?

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Post by Y-bar »

e40 wrote: post #401
Y-bar wrote: post #367

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It’s so bad. Last time I tried to use it I was unable to fill in my password for my account because Google had implement some custom input element and custom keyboard which did not contain some of the characters I have in my password. And of course there was no possibility to paste or use keychain.

If you have an iPhone you can input with that, including paste.

Tried it from my iPhone now, but no, paste still does NOT work.

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Post by immibis »

atty wrote: post #352
gessha wrote: post #332

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I guess they just hate their users lmao

Never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. And i think it’s fair to say the best and brightest at Google aren’t turning their attention to YouTube lately. Except maybe to make training datasets for Gemini N+1 :)

Can malice be emergent behaviour?

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Post by wrxd »

drivers99 wrote: post #169

There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did: Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time. Then go to controls (still in the manage all history dialog box under settings), under YouTube history hit Turn off. It says “pausing…” Hit Pause, and Got it. It’s been exactly 3 mon…

I did that as well and also removed all the subscriptions form YouTube itself and instead have all the channels I like in my RSS reader

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Post by immibis »

sunaookami wrote: post #355
koakuma-chan wrote: post #178

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"The Firefox version of uBO Lite will cease to exist, I am dropping support because of the added burden of dealing with AMO nonsensical and hostile review process. " https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

There is no need to use uBOL on Firefox, just use the normal version. EDIT: But yeah, the Mozilla reviewers are very hostile, also had to fight with them for one of my add-ons. It's ridiculous that spam and malware add-ons get a pass but privacy-conscious add-ons get rejected.

It's almost like ad monopoly company Google pays them millions of dollars.
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