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YouTube also decided that every video should be ten minutes long and made the algorithm recommend videos of that length so everyone had to start making their videos ten minutes long even if it made no sense to do so.

I heard Facebook is spent tons of money to combat election misinformation in 2016 and 2020 and I heard the same story again in 2024. The problem is solved right?

YouTube says the policy will combat “egregious” clickbait that misleads viewers, with a particular focus on videos related to “breaking news” or “current events.” The company’s examples of egregious clickbait include a video with the title “the president resigned!” that doesn’t actually address a resignation or a “top political news” thumbnail attached to a video with no news content.

sounds like anything that says it's one thing but does a whole different thing

Sadly it's only in India atm, and doesn't result in a strike(yet) so I doubt many are going to care.

Writing (not clickbait) in the title obviously

They either look like they need to shit or are eating an invisible popsicle

And maybe stop making comments help the video get more popular

Do comments first. There's so much spam that almost looks legit because of how many upvotes they have.

I feel a bit conflicted about that, do I want that extension to hide the terrible clickbaity titles and thumbnails? For me that's a good reason to not watch these videos in the first place

Thanks, gonna add tomorrow

YouTube will never "crack down" on these guys. They are their money-makes and can do whatever the fuck the want. Clickbait on huge channels is YouTube's bread and butter, even if people just click to comment that the creator sucks, that's still engagement and means there is more money in the ad bids.

Yeah, this is not even really targeting clickbait, more like putting restrictions on openly malicious content.

I'll be even more cynical than that: I think this policy will be abused to suppress legitimate news/current events videos with a POV the oligarchs doesn't approve of (e.g. pro-Palestinian, pro-Adjuster, etc.).

This will address extreme and obvious falsehoods but I still encounter clickbait of the more pedestrian kind everywhere I go. “You’re using your table saw WRONG” or “the 1 table saw trick 99% of people don’t know” etc.

I consider this clickbait: it creates a false sense of urgency and doesn’t convey any information in itself. What is this one trick? Oh I already knew that one, but I had to watch the video to realize that.

It wastes a lot of time and makes things harder to search for. And often these clickbait headlines are not in the video headline where YT can easily scan them, but in the thumbnail graphic in huge letters, where it’s probably harder to automate any moderation for.

I pay for YT premium but this aspect of the experience still feels ad-like and cheap.

Yes, which YT actively encourages people to do. So ultimately nothing really changes.

Top talent who made careers on clickbait will not be harmed

Pedophiles on set, no problem

Scamming people, no problem

Advertising and selling spoiled food, no problem

Say suicide, demonetized 🤡

The fix was there, but they removed it.

Return YouTube Dislikes still exists. The likes and dislikes of RYD users are stored in an external database, so Google cannot take them away.

"5 ways YouTube is cracking down on clickbait – #3 will make you shid and fard and cum your pants"

YouTube tried to crack down on clickbait, what happened next will shock you!