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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by hiptobecubic on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:46AM (#31143139)
"Making people want to click the video" is not shady in the same sense as SEO. A comparable trick might be jamming a bunch of keywords into the description.

Your real complaint is that people like stupid videos, but that's not YouTube's problem or fault.

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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by couchand on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:37AM (#31143418)
The concern with SEO is that the goal is to drive traffic to a site without meaningfully improving the content. Doesn't the same argument apply here? If the video doesn't change, and it's just the title and thumbnail changing in an effort to get more clicks, how is that materially different from SEO?
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Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss by hiptobecubic on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:27AM (#31301589)
Because it's the viewer deciding to choose the video, not some algorithm deciding what they get to choose from.
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