[HN Gopher] YouTube Oddities
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YouTube Oddities
Author : xk3
Score : 56 points
Date : 2024-02-14 09:37 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Fr0styMatt88 wrote:
| Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn't
| Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos?
|
| Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can't even
| lock my phone when playing a member's only video.
|
| Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation
| from Youtube as to why this is, if it's intentional or a bug,
| etc.
| pomian wrote:
| If you can, install an old version of Firefox, and that allows
| you continue playing the YouTube video, with screen off, etc.
| (For example 68 esr)
| noisem4ker wrote:
| ...or use an up-to-date version with this recommended
| extension:
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| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/video-
| backgro...
|
| ...or use NewPipe instead:
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| https://newpipe.net/
|
| (also available with SponsorBlock integration)
| beeboobaa wrote:
| Or install the latest Firefox with
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-
| backgro... (also available on Android)
| troupo wrote:
| > However, it is possible for 249 countries to appear in the
| allowed list. It's not clear why this happens as it is the same
| has having no restriction at all. It seems to occur most
| frequently with music videos, potentially they had actual blocks
| at one point and the only way it can be undone is to move
| everything to allowed?
|
| Most likely this is the list sent by the rights holder.
| zb3 wrote:
| Let me recommend this song: https://www.youtube.com/wach
| PetitPrince wrote:
| > Roel Van de Paar, at this current time has 2,035,484 videos
| uploaded. > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPF-
| oYb2-xN5FbCXy0167Gg
|
| What the hell. It doesn't seems to be autogenerated video.
| rwmj wrote:
| It looks like the kind of video spam that now shows up in
| searches for technical questions.
| vdaea wrote:
| They are automatically generated I would say. The text is
| copied from the web
|
| For instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWJ0spQ5q0 the
| text is from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62840146/unix-
| create-mul...
|
| There are several different intros with him talking but he has
| the same cold sore in every one of them...
| h4ch1 wrote:
| The videos seem to be done through a turk farm imo.
|
| The start has a random intro to seem more human-like and the
| Question/Answer is basically copypasted and the font/style of
| delivery is very mediocre (and very distinctly cheap SEA
| format). The comments are the biggest giveaway though with
| multiple "Love from Bangladesh"s.
| no-dr-onboard wrote:
| This appears to me to be just a compilation of rejected bug
| bounty reports that were marked as "informational / NA" and are
| now being disclosed by the author.
| sergiotapia wrote:
| Youtube Movies is such a wonderful product, it's crazy how I
| can't pay them $10/month and watch whatever I want in their
| ubiquitous apps. Even the comments come into play when watching a
| movie, it's fun to read jokes or some detail I missed. Like look,
| I can quickly watch The 6th Day a perfect Saturday 10AM movie
| while the kids are about to wake up.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw
|
| But because of greed all the content is spread across many many
| services, each with their own warty app. What a shame!
| GaggiX wrote:
| I remember the 666 video by removing c or h from "watch" from the
| URL of whatever video you were watching. Actually kinda eerie.
| twisteriffic wrote:
| Least favourite behavior of YouTube these days is the mass of
| pimple popping and wart removal videos that show up near the top
| of search results for damn near anything. "Fluke 87v power on
| options"? Pimple popping. "Generator repair"? Wart removal. And
| it isn't just one, it's dozens of them, to the point where there
| might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are
| basically gore/grossout videos.
|
| It's still better than when it was constantly recommending the
| daily wire.
| qup wrote:
| I've never seen one recommended, just a counter-point. I watch
| YouTube daily.
| enobrev wrote:
| Maybe because I watch a good deal of youtube almost every day,
| but I do not see these sort of results.
| crazygringo wrote:
| I think somebody watched a lot of pimple-popping videos while
| logged into your account. You might want to take a look at your
| viewing history:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
|
| Because that's definitely not a default. I've never seen
| YouTube recommend one of those in my life.
| cobertos wrote:
| Using YouTube's search through something not tied to your
| account like NewPipe will solve this issue of recommendations
| in search.
| throwanem wrote:
| Do you use the "not interested"/"don't recommend channel"
| options on these, or report them?
|
| If not, it may be worth a try. They seem to do a lot to steer
| Youtube's recommender away from the more gamy regions of its
| latent space; I think about a year ago I saw recommended such a
| video, immediately reported it for "violent or repulsive
| content", and thus far haven't seen another.
|
| (To be clear, I don't think the report was acted upon by
| Youtube, but I do think the signal inherent in the action must
| be accounted for in its recommendation model.)
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