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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by actuator on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:02PM (#24001185)
Way before than that. It sounds easy in theory but it was amazing how their platform auto moderated content. People used to go around finding new ways like clipping the video frame and adding unrelated content. Slowing down video, audio etc.
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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by barbecue_sauce on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:10PM (#24001261)
They still do that.
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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by jjoonathan on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:18PM (#24001330)
The obfuscation techniques are getting more and more intrusive. Google hasn't won, but they seem to be gaining ground against an enormous number of clever and lively human adversaries. That's impressive.
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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by pvarangot on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:25PM (#24001386)
More than not won I think Google already lost. They wanted to empower individual creators but their automatic moderation algorithms are already at a level where they flag fair use and legal use of user generated content in a way that usually backfires on them with small PR fires within internet communities.

But I guess that's the price to pay to be able to be "friends" with big media.

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by Avicebron on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:18PM (#24001325)
And it still actually works, the algorithms are sophisticated, but the heavy reliance on them leads to some serious blind spots.
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