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Is the problem as bad as you say and really getting worse? I don't know, I personally have never been recommended anything like this. I also think it's absurd f

Is the problem as bad as you say and really getting worse? I don't know, I personally have never been recommended anything like this. I also think it's absurd for you to suggest that you could "write a couple of regular expressions" to successfully remove spam from YouTube with 0 false positives. The reason stuff like this will always exist is precisely because false positives are inevitable and they piss people off way more than spam. There are dozens of threads about random YouTube videos getting hit by the algorithm going back a decade on this site, the reality is that this problem will always exist. With all that said, there's nothing wrong with asking YouTube to do better, but I'd temper my expectations if I were you.

hamiltonians 5y ago
People's expectations are already very low. But there dozens of these videos playing at any time . It's not like this is a one-time occurrence or under the radar. It's everywhere when you search for certain keywords or just browse certain topics like crypto or elon musk or any major event. You would think these highly paid engineers and such a hugely profitable company could do more to fix it.
sen 5y ago
On my front page right near the top, right now, is a video that looks EXACTLY like a SpaceX live stream, it's "Live Now", the channel name is "Space X", the thumbnail is the exact same one they use for their livestreams, and the title is "SpaceX's all-civilian Inspration4 mission!" and it has thousands of viewers right now. The only way to tell it's fake is by hovering over the channel name and the URL isn't /c/SpaceX it's /channel/<randomcharacters> I've seen these on the front page every single day for weeks now, always with different URLs. I tried to report a few but quickly found out from other comments here that it does nothing so I gave up and just ignore them now.

hamiltonians 5y ago

People's expectations are already very low. But there dozens of these videos playing at any time . It's not like this is a one-time occurrence or under the radar. It's everywhere when you search for certain keywords or just browse certain topics like crypto or elon musk or any major event. You would think these highly paid engineers and such a hugely profitable company could do more to fix it.

sen 5y ago

On my front page right near the top, right now, is a video that looks EXACTLY like a SpaceX live stream, it's "Live Now", the channel name is "Space X", the thumbnail is the exact same one they use for their livestreams, and the title is "SpaceX's all-civilian Inspration4 mission!" and it has thousands of viewers right now. The only way to tell it's fake is by hovering over the channel name and the URL isn't /c/SpaceX it's /channel/<randomcharacters> I've seen these on the front page every single day for weeks now, always with different URLs. I tried to report a few but quickly found out from other comments here that it does nothing so I gave up and just ignore them now.