A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google

Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by seanhunter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:34AM (#16755689)

I'm absolutely convinced that noone in Youtube uses 1)Youtube's search function (how can a company that is famous for search have such a completely terrible search at the heart of one of their main products?) 2)Subscriptions (how come they think that subscribing to a feed means "sometimes tell me when there's an update, sometimes don't"?. Can't conceive of them thinking that if they actually used them)

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by delecti on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:20PM (#16756198)

There's a subscription page that (as far as I've ever seen) always shows me all new videos from all of my subscriptions. I'm so confused whenever I hear people make that complaint, because other than times when Youtube as a whole is inaccessible for some reason, I've never experienced anything like it.

Where are you going that you're not seeing all of your subscribed channels' videos?

This is the page I mentioned, and I don't know where else to see subscribed videos. Is there some place that doesn't show them all in this format? https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by Izkata on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:07PM (#16756716)

They're talking about email alerts. Those don't include every video.

Personally, I find them rather useless as they often tell me about videos I'd already seen a week before from the subscriptions page.

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by reaperducer on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:33PM (#16758130)

Not necessarily email alerts.

When I look at YouTube on my AppleTV, in the subscriptions area it'll show me videos from 5 years ago listed first, and videos from a few days ago buried among a bunch of unrelated videos from channels to which I'm not even subscribed.

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by samstave on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:58PM (#16756607)

Agreed.

YouTube is a mess right now. For example, if I go to see the latest clip from last nights various late night shows, it might show me one clip, then everything else is old or completely unrelated to my search.

I even uploaded two videos to my account, but only one of them shows up in my account. The other is there via direct link, but even when I’m logged in as me, it doesn’t show up at all.

Further, whomever created “G Suite” either hates users or is the worst product manager ever.

I bought a domain from google and added g suite for that domain.

It tied the domain to my personal gmail account, and it confuses which account services are tied to: now when I send an email from the new domain’s g suite gmail: any replies to those sent emails return to BoTH!! My personal gmail AND the new gmail account???

They have menu item that are inexplicably non-clickable. The links to things are black and thus not intuitively obvious they are links and a range of other problems.

You have to manage some items through your gmail, the other gmail, admin.google, domains.google etc it’s a freaking nightmare!

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by rconti on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#16758314)

And there's something incredibly weird where your videos don't show up in "my videos" but instead in some other place. And the experience is drastically different on a computer vs phone vs TV, and the UI is completely unintuitive.

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