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YouTube is starting to do this as well. For example they've made it so that accounts with less than 1000 subscribers can't do live streams any more. Not coincid

YouTube is starting to do this as well. For example they've made it so that accounts with less than 1000 subscribers can't do live streams any more. Not coincidentally, 1000 subscribers is the threshold for monetization (i.e., when ads start getting shown on all the account's videos). A lot of smaller channels are upset about it, since live streams were one of the ways they were /getting/ to 1000 subscribers in the first place, but you can't fight the platform :(

Flozzin 7y ago
I wonder how much it costs to get a thousand bot accounts to subscribe to your account.
- Karunamon 7y ago
  About $90ish after some cursory searching. I wouldn't do it, though, seems like a great way to get a nasty surprise in the future when the bots get terminated.
  - Scoundreller 7y ago
    There’s also an hours of viewing requirement. The sad part about the sub requirement is that many forms of content are valuable but not sub-worthy. If you create a video on how to fix a ‘93 Hyundai’s brakes and next week how to fix your vintage garage door, I’m not going to sub. It’s not « feedable » content Maybe I would if it was entertaining in a time-wasting way, but that shouldn’t be a requirement. ChrisFix isn’t going to make a brake-change video for every car out there.
- Analemma_ 7y ago
  That's playing with fire. If/when Google figures out what you're doing, they'll nuke your entire Google presence- YouTube, Gmail, everything- with no recourse.
ken 7y ago
YouTube is definitely doing this. If you watch a video without being signed in, it now displays a popover (over the video) that says "You're signed out of YouTube. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. [GOT IT]"
throw0101a 7y ago
I know of a few gaming channels that tend to stream on Twitch and then post on YT later (often in 30 minute segments for easier consumption). If someone is using (e.g.) OBS Studio to stitch together a screencap and a facecam, it's easy to have to save to a file for later use.
AlchemistCamp 7y ago
Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal. In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an embed or via the API. Last year, they removed that option. It's frustrating that they claim to be explicitly trying to promote educational content, but then they degrade the experience for educational viewers, regardless of the preference of the viewer or creator.
- netsharc 7y ago
  > A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal. In the DOS days the Pause button on your keyboard would actually stop the text being scrolled (if you had a multi-page output). I wonder if Windows (or well any desktop OS) can have a feature where that button would freeze frame the display.
  - pjc50 7y ago
    Could probably do it today with autohotkey or similar; take screenshot and display full screen borderless. Very confusing when you click on the screenshot though.
- matttb 7y ago
  I'm not sure if it's YT or the channel creators, but I've noticed a lot videos are popping up the 'Also check out these videos' thing at the end of their videos (as an overlay, not part of the video), and it covers up the actual video content with no way to hide/remove it.
- wescarpenter 7y ago
  YES. Video recommendations covering the screen while I pause to try and read something. Is it really that niche of a use case that the user is pausing the video to better view something in said video?! How many more places do we need to shove recommendation systems down the users throat.

Flozzin 7y ago

I wonder how much it costs to get a thousand bot accounts to subscribe to your account.

Karunamon 7y ago
About $90ish after some cursory searching. I wouldn't do it, though, seems like a great way to get a nasty surprise in the future when the bots get terminated.
- Scoundreller 7y ago
  There’s also an hours of viewing requirement. The sad part about the sub requirement is that many forms of content are valuable but not sub-worthy. If you create a video on how to fix a ‘93 Hyundai’s brakes and next week how to fix your vintage garage door, I’m not going to sub. It’s not « feedable » content Maybe I would if it was entertaining in a time-wasting way, but that shouldn’t be a requirement. ChrisFix isn’t going to make a brake-change video for every car out there.
Analemma_ 7y ago
That's playing with fire. If/when Google figures out what you're doing, they'll nuke your entire Google presence- YouTube, Gmail, everything- with no recourse.

ken 7y ago

YouTube is definitely doing this. If you watch a video without being signed in, it now displays a popover (over the video) that says "You're signed out of YouTube. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. [GOT IT]"

throw0101a 7y ago

I know of a few gaming channels that tend to stream on Twitch and then post on YT later (often in 30 minute segments for easier consumption). If someone is using (e.g.) OBS Studio to stitch together a screencap and a facecam, it's easy to have to save to a file for later use.

AlchemistCamp 7y ago

Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal. In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an embed or via the API. Last year, they removed that option. It's frustrating that they claim to be explicitly trying to promote educational content, but then they degrade the experience for educational viewers, regardless of the preference of the viewer or creator.

netsharc 7y ago
> A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal. In the DOS days the Pause button on your keyboard would actually stop the text being scrolled (if you had a multi-page output). I wonder if Windows (or well any desktop OS) can have a feature where that button would freeze frame the display.
- pjc50 7y ago
  Could probably do it today with autohotkey or similar; take screenshot and display full screen borderless. Very confusing when you click on the screenshot though.
matttb 7y ago
I'm not sure if it's YT or the channel creators, but I've noticed a lot videos are popping up the 'Also check out these videos' thing at the end of their videos (as an overlay, not part of the video), and it covers up the actual video content with no way to hide/remove it.
wescarpenter 7y ago
YES. Video recommendations covering the screen while I pause to try and read something. Is it really that niche of a use case that the user is pausing the video to better view something in said video?! How many more places do we need to shove recommendation systems down the users throat.