Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by earthscienceman on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:56AM
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Woah. Great idea, so many interesting things to explore. I'm surprised there's no comment yet about the video titled "The most dangerous Barack Obama video ever!!!". It's such an obvious precursor for what the internet would be come. I was genuinely shocked that it had 10,000,000+ views.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by bartread on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:39AM
(#20798463)
Unreal. Front page: 6.9M people[1] watched a video of a small dog trying to mate with a cat. The cat wasn't interested but showed surprising forbearance.
[1] OK, yes, I know, it's 6.9M views, and probably some people watched it multiple, so it's probably 2 - 3M people, but that's still a lot of people watching a dog mating with a cat.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by have_faith on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:48AM
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I thought YT counted multiple viewings from the same person as a single view. Or it would be too easy to game. I at least imagine there would be a time cutoff before it considered counting a new view from the same person.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by agumonkey on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:27AM
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I think youtube does a bit of checking on views. The view counter is not real, IIRC the delay is due to asynchronous processing, youtube has time to do stuff in some cases. That's why a lot of videos are stuck at 320 views, that's the supposed limit above which the counting goes async and you get lots of vid with false views.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by doctoboggan on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:32AM
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No, if a single person watches more than once it is counted as multiple views. For the video creator, you can see a metric called "Unique Viewers" and see your "Average Views per Viewer" number which helps you see if people are watching multiple times.
All that being said, I do think there is some detention of fake views, especially if they come from the uploader themselves.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by PBnFlash on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:01AM
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This is neat, I tried to make a video series a while ago where I compared and contrasted what was in the front page of YouTube 10 years ago. This would have been super helpful for that. But I was shocked with how much of the stuff from back then on that site is just gone.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by voltagex_ on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:50AM
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Me and a mate have a playlist of stuff to watch when we get together and drink beers. I keep meaning to track/archive it because give it a month and there'll be 2 or 3 out of ~20 videos deleted. The decay is immense.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by crtasm on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:02AM
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Are you familiar with youtube-dl? It can download an entire public playlist - ignoring videos previously downloaded - and easy to run it on a schedule.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by PBnFlash on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:59PM
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Sometimes, sometimes the accounts get deleted for one reason or another. Lot of the old channels seem to be taken over by boots too.
One of my very old videos seemed to have gotten corrupted even.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by mcny on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:47AM
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I made a video using YouTube's own Audio tracks thing and put a classical piano tuner from its library. It still got a copy right claim and someone makes money every view.
How? The track is from YouTube. It was written more than two hundred years ago. In any case, a claim against YouTube's own tracks should be auto rejected and the violater banned. Instead...
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by pjc50 on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:06AM
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The realpolitik answer is that this is where the barbed wire ended up in the war between copyright holders and internet companies. It's a situation that satisfies nobody, but both sides get to continue making money. Justice has very little to do with it.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by PeterisP on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:17AM
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Performance copyright applies to classical music as much as for everything else. You're free to play, record and distribute copies of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as the copyright to the composition has expired, but you're not free to redistribute recordings of someone else performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 without the explicit permission from the author(s) of that performance.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by mcny on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:52AM
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Sorry but that makes no sense to me. I didn't upload a video with a sound track. I added the sound track with YouTube's tool.
The track I used is from YouTube's library. YouTube knows it because I used it. There should be no confusion about who the performer is and nobody should be able to claim the video.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by mgalgs on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:56AM
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Kudos to the creator for the responsible advertising strategy. The "hey -- you're using an ad blocker" message was thoughtful and non-guilt-tripping. Ads are clearly delineated as such, and the actual ads aren't spammy (carbon). Online advertising needs an overhaul and this is a step in the right direction.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 1...
by insin on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:51AM
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Create a bookmarklet of this:
let d = new Date()
d.setFullYear(d.getFullYear() - 10)
location.href = `https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=${d.getFullYear()}-${d.getMonth() + 1}-${d.getDate()}`
Preserved in a screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/mnerRgk.jpg
23.4M views. Is that the number of views now or the number of views ten years ago?
[1] OK, yes, I know, it's 6.9M views, and probably some people watched it multiple, so it's probably 2 - 3M people, but that's still a lot of people watching a dog mating with a cat.
I imagine it would horrible performance-wise. You would need to store list of browser fingerprints and check it on every view.
All that being said, I do think there is some detention of fake views, especially if they come from the uploader themselves.
First girlfriend. Opposite opinions of the movie.
We broke up soon after.
How? The track is from YouTube. It was written more than two hundred years ago. In any case, a claim against YouTube's own tracks should be auto rejected and the violater banned. Instead...
Why?
The track I used is from YouTube's library. YouTube knows it because I used it. There should be no confusion about who the performer is and nobody should be able to claim the video.
also we have a whole other thread on the HN front page about this RN
Wrapping this in a calendar widget and injecting through GreaseMonkey script is left as an exercise for the reader.
https://youtubedecade.netlify.com/data/2019_8_26.json
Is it possible to use the search API to create something like this for HN?