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Re:Tell HN: YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse by jschlatter on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:30PM (#28589868)
You're not the only one. I've been getting annoyed by these, too.

I was encouraged today to discover that youtube has a report history page that lets you know the outcome of your reports. Most of the videos I've reported have been removed, including most of the ones I've reported in the last 12 hours. So at least _something_ is being done about them, even though the current effort is not sufficient against the unending inflow of new scam videos.

Here's the report history page: https://www.youtube.com/reporthistory

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse by shirro on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:29PM (#28590132)
Excellent. Good to see all the ones I reported have been removed. That gives me a lot more confidence in the reporting mechanism. Youtube is obviously dealing with a considerable volume of these. I still wonder if I am being used as a mechanical turk to help identify these. Hopefully the inputs are training a machine learning system.
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