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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by barbacoa on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:59PM (#26654249)
Has anyone else been slowly watching YouTube turn into cable TV? When I search "Hong Kong protests" I just get a bunch of videos from CNN and Fox News, not that long ago a search like that would turn up first hand videos of people who were there. Now they are copying streaming services in making it harder to tell what is garbage and what is worth watching.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by dilap on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:03PM (#26654296)
Yeah, slowly but surely YouTube is destroying itself. Which is very sad, because it's been an amazing resource. I'd love to see ByteDance do a YouTube competitor. (Or, dream of all dreams, see something distributed really take off.)
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by barbacoa on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:10PM (#26654361)
Sadly as long as google dominates search there is little chance that any other video site will get any traction since Google biases towards youtube and away from start up steaming sites.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by dilap on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:17PM (#26654448)
Probably has to start w/ an app.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by hunter-2 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:32AM (#26656709)
On Android...
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by jgoodknight on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:58PM (#26656548)
good luck getting videos of the hong kong protests with a ByteDance YouTube!
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by aksss on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:58PM (#26655441)
Yes, just like they got rid of the "Discussions" search filter that used to show you results from forums (i.e. the content of individuals) - now every search topic is dominated by sales channels.

BoardReader.com aims to replace this, but IME attempts to search for exact phrases (multiple words in quotes) doesn't work well.

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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by Drew_ on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:37PM (#26655273)
News networks have much better SEO than John Doe with a phone and 0 subscribers.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by CryptoGhost on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:58PM (#26655438)
It's not even SEO. Youtube / Google personally partners with certain businesses and injects them into seemingly organic video feeds. For example, there is an invite only advertisement tier that you don't automatically get access to regardless of view or subscriber count.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by bogomipz on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:22PM (#26655122)
Yes I agree with your observations. And I've also noticed an aggressive pop up add campaign from Google asking whether I want purchase Youtube Premium.
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