Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

Sperg_rancher said:
Heard that Youtube is injecting ads directly into the bitstreams of videos.
I wonder if this will lose them their safe-harbor status in any copyright cases, as in copyright, one isn't a protected publisher if they "editorialize" the content that's served, and cutting many pieces of content into the middle of various videos sure does seem like editorializing...
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They won't have anything happen. Streaming services plaster ads on movies and television shows that never had commercials. Live sporting events are often interrupted for commercials where there is no split screen option to keep seeing the live event. You click a link that says "movie clip" or "movie review" yet it's actually three unskippable ads, then a sponsorship read, and then the actual content that you wanted.

Just like you click a link that says "newspaper story" but then the link is a slideshow where every other slide is an advertisement, and there are banner ads, and audio ads, and sponsored content on both sidebars of the actual news story that you wanted to read. Things like clickbait and ad-bait are basically the normal way that web and media services are designed.
 
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TheHarbinger said:
They won't have anything happen. Streaming services plaster ads on movies and television shows that never had commercials. Live sporting events are often interrupted for commercials where there is no split screen option to keep seeing the live event. You click a link that says "movie clip" or "movie review" yet it's actually three unskippable ads, then a sponsorship read, and then the actual content that you wanted.

Just like you click a link that says "newspaper story" but then the link is a slideshow where every other slide is an advertisement, and there are banner ads, and audio ads, and sponsored content on both sidebars of the actual news story that you wanted to read. Things like clickbait and ad-bait are basically the normal way that web and media services are designed.
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yeah. you're probably right. just throwing shit at the wall.
 
I've found that more and more videos are suffering a weird playback issue, in which the video will stop and the audio will continue. Scrubbing back and forth across the affection section results in the same problem at the same timestamp. Reloading doesn't fix it and it will persist across sessions. Sometimes it will go away after a few minutes, other times it's permanent. It's getting very annoying.
 
"Copy Video Frame" is supposedly a feature in Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc. and it works on YouTube videos. But I don't see it anywhere when I right click a YouTube video. Am I missing something?


Edit: I got it. You have to right click twice quickly to get rid of the custom YouTube context menu and bring up the browser's own. Sneaky.
 
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YT has a new "Stable Volume" feature where videos play annoyingly quiet if it's deactivated, or vid is played in another frontend.
 
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Is this new? Entirely IP based. Seems pretty desperate to start just range banning on such a large site because your JS fingerprinting malware can't even stop the leeches anymore.
 
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Google going back to the days of AOL has made YouTube even worse than I ever thought possible. I try to look something up and get completely unrelated shit. Most of my recommended videos are nothing but derivative Bangladeshi Chineseium slop. Even Invidious doesn't work consistently anymore- when it does, the sign-in banner stays on age-restricted videos. Switching instances doesn't work. It doesn't load.

At least FreeTube works okay.
 
Did someone at YT break the content ID check? I'm seeing tons of popular movies getting uploaded in their entirety and recommended
 
grump said:
Maybe I'm hallucinating but I've noticed a ton of videos which previously had open comment sections are now suddenly disabled. The common theme seems to be that they are on 'family friendly' topics like G rated movies. Now disabling comments on videos aimed directly at kids like they have done for years is one thing. I personally think even this is overbearing. But this is a shit ton more videos and probably a sizeable percentage of their whole library. Its such a shame, those comment sections were the best part of the website. Has anyone else noticed this? I don't see any mentions of it in the media.

Also this isn't really youtube directly but Google just gimped their reverse image search so you can't use it on people anymore. So now catfishers and scammers who steal photos can get away scot free. Its like they are intentionally making the worst possible decisions all the time now.
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Keep in mind the head of Google's search is an Indian he's just protecting his fellow sloppy jockeys from consequences
 
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invisibult plus+ said:
I try to look something up and get completely unrelated shit.
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YT always puts slop from the top news and entertainment channels at the top of many of my searches. I used to have more luck using the search filters, but even when using those, YT hides videos relevant to my search. They've instituted ghost bans on so many words and phrases that I can sometimes barely find anything.

I was recently looking up videos related to a certain topic by sorting videos by upload time within the past month. This resulted in a few videos related to my search. However, if I went to a channel that I knew had uploaded a video less than 2 week since the day I did this search, it was there on the channel, but not in the search results despite the title having the exact keywords I had searched for. Google search results are exactly the same, of course.

Doesn't matter what you upload to YT if nobody can find it.
 
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Remember a few years ago YouTube ditched Community Captions where viewers would help pitch in and subtitle a video not just in English but in other languages, but they got rid of it because it was a "unpopular, barely used" feature?
Well it seems like they're bringing it back somewhat as I was just notified that you can help improve auto-subtitle captions on a video if captions are enabled.
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I don't know if this applies to auto-translated captions yet.
 
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Colon capital V said:
Remember a few years ago YouTube ditched Community Captions where viewers would help pitch in and subtitle a video not just in English but in other languages, but they got rid of it because it was a "unpopular, barely used" feature?
Well it seems like they're bringing it back somewhat as I was just notified that you can help improve auto-subtitle captions on a video if captions are enabled.
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Is this for accounts only?
 
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