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neclimdul ,

So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can’t add translations. 🤯

Tregetour , (edited )
@Tregetour@lemdro.id avatar

Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one’s horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.

timmymac ,

So more virtue signal crap. Got it.

trashgirlfriend ,

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This guy is a dumbass lmao

timmymac ,

You sound stupid when you don’t have independent thought. Maybe not here in this circle jerk but in the real world.

trashgirlfriend ,

…Must have been the wind.

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

You are very angry about this

Halosheep ,

Amazing how often user’s notes disagree with your worldview isn’t it?

I wonder where the problem stems from. Could they all be wrong?

timmymac ,

It’s amazing how your worldview lines up with what the media told you to say. Not a single independent thought.

Halosheep ,

Why do conservative “independent thoughts” always result in the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard?

Holyginz ,

Because some of the dumbest people in the world are the ones who told them to say it.

Holyginz ,

Who told you to say that? Seriously you obviously didn’t think it up yourself since everyone of you sounds the exact same, so who is it who owns you?

papertowels ,

When conservative media pushes the same news script to over 200 local news stations across the nation, it is dangerous to our democracy.

Etterra ,

Doesn’t the quagmire currently known as the website formerly known as Twitter already have this feature? Sounds like Y’tube is late to the party.

jayandp ,

I mean, if this is basically Twitter’s Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I’m all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it’s the last thing that hasn’t been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.

cupcakezealot ,
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    Gestrid ,

    Honestly never seen that happen.

    Most times, I see it used on ads, political figures, and Elon himself.

    helpImTrappedOnline ,

    This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It’ll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube’s history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.

    RememberTheApollo_ ,

    lol, considering the “quality” content in the comments section it’s just going to be a continuation of that dumpster fire.

    prole ,

    I would never go as far as to say that they’re “quality,” but I do think YT comment sections aren’t the complete shitshow that they were a decade or so ago. It really does depend on the channel though too.

    cabron_offsets ,

    Thanks bruh, if I had the patience to deal with ads maybe I’d watch YouTube.

    SharkEatingBreakfast ,
    @SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Didn’t they take away crowd-sourced subtitles before?

    Tixanou ,

    Damn I miss those. Nowadays it’s really hard to find a video that’s in another language and has subtitles. The only subtitles you will find are the automatically-generated ones, which suck

    Gestrid ,

    They’re at least understandable (usually), but they’re like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.

    sem ,

    They’re only about 90% accurate and usually that’s better than nothing, but sometimes the little bit that’s wrong is very confusing

    harsh3466 ,

    That’s not going to go wrong at all.

    Emmy ,

    Time to scrape notes data for ai

    Caligvla ,
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video…

    paraphrand ,

    This is just for training AI.

    YaDownWitCPP ,

    Hopefully it’s on by default and works like the old pop-up-video messages over the video. It should play a sound every time one pops up and then a bubble popping sound when you click on it to close it.

    Gormadt ,
    @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too

    UFODivebomb ,

    Nah. Low value signal. Easy to game.

    Thorny_Insight ,

    I agree but there’s also an add-on for that

    kellenoffdagrid ,
    @kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Yeah but it’s not that accurate, and it leaves most normal mobile users out of the picture. I know YouTube knew exactly what they were doing when they removed dislikes, but it still seems absolutely insane to remove such a useful tool for sifting through the bullshit.

    timmymac ,

    It was removed because Biden got too many downvotes. It’ll be back soon. It was stupid of them to take it away.

    Gormadt ,
    @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    That’s not why it was removed

    It was removed not long after one of their Rewind vids was disliked to hell.

    And it ain’t coming back, at least they haven’t so much as hinted at it

    timmymac ,

    Nah, that’s what they told you and you believed. Don’t be a fool for the media. It’s a bad look.

    Strykker ,

    Continuing to speak is a bad look on you.

    You talk shit out of your ass.

    timmymac ,

    I talk truth in my own thoghts. You speak lies in talking points you were told to say. And you do. Be smarter. Don’t follow the herd.

    WamGams ,

    I am glad to see that in his personal bankruptcy, Alex Jones has decided to spend the free time here on Lemmy…

    Welcome to have you, Ale, I can’t wait to hear more about the chicken fried steak that God talked to you through.

    timmymac ,

    Follower

    WamGams ,

    I deserved you calling me a sheeple, Alex.

    Blisterexe ,

    Alright, why do you think that google would remove dislikes becausr of biden

    timmymac ,

    I don’t think it. It’s true. The reason is because they were pushing his agenda. They’ve already admitted that. They removed it because he was getting too many. Just because you disagree doesn’t make me wrong because that is straight truth.

    Blisterexe ,

    First of all, source?

    Second of all, wouldnt alphabet (googles parent company) back trump since he would lower their taxes and oppose législation that would cause them money?

    timmymac ,

    The fact you don’t know this means you clearly just get info that is fed to you. You’re not worth talking to. Not my job to do your research. It’s there. You don’t want to find it.

    Blisterexe ,

    Are you stupid? This isnt how you convince people youre right, how do you know you arent just consuming fringe misinformation. And also, the burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim, im going to assume you dont have a source

    prole ,

    Whoa this guy’s badass.

    He knows what’s really going on, and it just happens to always be opposite of whatever “the media” says.

    timmymac ,

    Crazy but true. Keep being a follower. See how that works out for you.

    prole ,

    Ooooh boy it must feel super special to have this secret knowledge that nobody else but you can seem to keep up with. Almost as if it’s bullshit.

    Tell me, based my one reply to you, who am I following? Is anyone who disagrees with you automatically a “follower”? That would seem a little too convenient, no?

    The fact is you’re a basic-ass, run of the mill contrarian. Most of us have learned how to deal with people like you in our real lives, but it’s always a little bit sad to see someone who clearly doesn’t have anyone in their life to tell them to shut the fuck up every now and then.

    So here, I’ll do everyone a service: Shut the fuck up.

    forrgott ,

    Lol no.

    Voyajer ,
    @Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

    So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?

    catloaf ,

    Didn’t they take away the dislike button?

    simplejack ,
    @simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

    The removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.

    Fiivemacs ,

    The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.

    NutWrench ,
    @NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

    “Return YouTube Dislike” extension for Firefox and Chrome.

    Moneo ,

    Works surprisingly well even after all this time. I often forget its been removed.

    prole ,

    It isn’t a real count of users who have clicked the dislike button, YouTube no longer makes that data available.

    So I would not put much stock in that number.

    Moneo ,

    I’m well aware of how it works.

    prole ,

    Then why put any stock in it whatsoever

    Zeoic ,

    Because it is quite accurate

    prole ,

    And you’re basing that conclusion on…?

    Zeoic ,

    Creators can view their like and dislike percentage, and around when the extension came about, many large youtubers were able to confirm the accuracy of the guesstimate that the extension gives you (on new content after the dislike indicator was removed). There are enough users and historical data to make the calculations reeeeally close.

    prole ,

    It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.

    I imagine it’s taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.

    kuberoot ,

    It is real, it’s just not data from YouTube. The information on how it works is made very clear, and people using it should be aware of the drawbacks.

    Joelk111 ,

    Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.

    Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that’s OK, as it’s open source and you can see how it’s calculated on their github.

    It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.

    It also archived a lot of video’s dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.

    As a user of the extension who knows how it works (no thanks to yourself), take it with whatever sized grain of salt you feel comfortable with.

    prole ,

    It’s “real” as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it’s just an estimate.

    demonsword ,
    @demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

    you can still see that number on smarttube

    gaifux ,

    LOL definitely a real comment by a real person. Dislike bar…

    tacostrange ,

    It was a bar that showed the ratio of likes to dislikes

    Traister101 ,

    https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fws3y6jd9fk931.png%3Fwidth%3D299%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dda6f9e2f1a2bc079cbe3faa9f4ac16a6ec689ef4

    Retiring ,
    @Retiring@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don’t see what was wrong with the comment of /u/voyajer. Can you elaborate?

    Alk ,

    The dislike bar was real, I’ll tell ya, I’ve lived nigh on eighty years and me own two eyes seent the dislike bar clear as day! Ye better believe, sonny, it’s the truth!

    Gestrid ,

    Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the “yes” and “no” as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).

    Sidyctism2 ,

    Wait till you tell him youtube used to have a 5-star rating system

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