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YouTube is testing people now?
- deadalus 5y agoYoutube Alternatives : Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
- newsclues 5y agoIf I want to host my own niche curated video community, where do I start?
- sschueller 5y agoPeerTube, https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/ You can use an instance that let's you upload or you can run your own on a host somewhere and federated it.
- WJW 5y agoS3? Not even joking, a static website with some html5 video tags would bring you quite some way. Depending on how worried you are about potential load and/or egress costs, you could go for somewhere with cheaper egress as well if you want.
- capableweb 5y agoS3 will be way more expensive that it has to be. Instead, I'd opt for using a dedicated server from Hetzner, unlimited traffic for 0 EUR/GB (besides the monthly cost of the instance that is).
- bushbaba 5y agoTheir dedicated servers will be more expensive than s3. their storage boxes are much cheaper. You’d also want to compare google drive, Dropbox, box, Amazon drive (Amazon photos), iCloud storage, and backblaze https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
- bogwog 5y agoI wonder how far you could get with Github pages? It’s probably againsttheir ToS anyways, but I bet you could host a decent amount of (efficiently-encoded) videos before they kick you off.
- deadbunny 5y agoThese are alternatives to hosting, not viewing. Hard to switch platforms if the people making videos I want to watch are not on the new platform.
- bogwog 5y agoInvidious lets you watch youtube videos without using Youtube. It even lets you subscribe to channels, and import your subscriptions from Youtube. Theres an app for Android and Win/Mac/Linux called Freetube that uses Invidious. There are a lot of free Invidious instances out there. You can also self host one if you want. Use it! And if you can, donate to one of the public Invidious instances.
- btdmaster 5y agompv combined with yt-dlp works quite nicely too, just paste the URL as an argument to mpv and it handles downloading on its own. Primary issue is that yt-dlp is highly sensitive to shadow API changes so rolling release is needed for it to be useful, though this can still be done with custom repositories on distros outside of e.g. Arch.
- calllr 5y agoSomeone needs a promotion at Google and this is the latest plot to get people to train a "new" and "revolutionary" AI?
- tupac_speedrap 5y agoI never see these surveys when I browse Youtube on my PC but the bonkers shit they ask my Mum always amuses me, also Youtube is very picky about about the content that YouTube creators create but will happily bombard my Mum with gambling ads all the time. You can opt out for "less" gambling adverts but obviously algo-wankers weasel out of any responsibility so it probably won't work very well since it makes them less money.
- foepys 5y agoI stopped using the official YouTube app when YouTube started to constantly show me literal porn as ads below videos. The images were distorted a little bit but you could clearly see what was going on. I wasn't able to report any ad and it kept happening, so I just stopped using the app and went full ad block.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoIf she uses a PC you might be able to install uBlock for her. I never see ads on YouTube except for the mentions of sponsors that are part of the video.
- Veen 5y ago> bombard my Mum with gambling ads I get loads of financial scams, especially crypto scams. It used to be Russian wife services and gambling. Probably because I turned off ad personalization for my Google account, so I get the lowest grade ad stock there is.
- snailmailman 5y agoI’ve also turned off ad targeting and have experienced the same. Lots of scam ads, many of them for crypto. I’ve tried to report a few of the more blatant scam ads, but the reporting process is tedious and not worth wasting my time on. Like the “free fortnite v-bucks” at a sketchy site is 100% stealing your account right? Thankfully I don’t see those very often so presumably google takes them down quick.
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- elcapitan 5y agoCan you win a washing machine that plays video clips or why should anyone participate in those surveys?
- the-dude 5y agoYou are yoking, but I recently needed to visit a sewing machine shop and it appears there are sewing machines with Android UIs. And it was displaying a YT video. My sewing machine is decade+ old second hand I got for € 20, no YT.
- elcapitan 5y agoIt's only complete though if the washing machine is showing YT ads for washing machines.
- ajb 5y agoMy guess is these are from Google Consumer Surveys, which anyone can use. So google itself probably doesn't give a sh*t about this data, although I wouldn't bet that they don't track it. [Edited to add] Although GCS is intended for boring stuff like which marketting logo or slogan is best, you can actually use it for any question, that doesn't violate the terms. In the past I've used it for joke surveys as well as academic research. Although I haven't done it for a while in case some turker flags me and gets my whole google account banned.
- tanduv 5y ago+1 I've previously got some of these questionable surveys from the 'Opinion Rewards' app and a few other spots on Google sites. Quite sure if you click on the [i] button (in OP's screenshot), it displays a blurb about the questions coming from a third party.
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- bemmu 5y agoMaybe there are questions where the value of learning a thing about the user for future ad targeting is higher than just showing them another ad? Reminds me of the time a dating company did research (maybe okcupid?) on the best question to ask for matching, and it was something like "do you believe in angels?".
- winternett 5y agoThese surveys on platforms are basically a way of evading the deep tracking they used to implement on their apps. Since app stores and device makers clamped down on app-based tracking, many social platforms lost their ability to track people deeply to better target ads, so now they do covert psychological and cultural profiling to get the metrics they want. It's also why many platforms are handicapping their web sites and why some only allow access through mobile apps, because web site interactions don't give them deeper tracking cues they want, like access to device cameras and microphones, without alerting users first. If you use TikTok or IG, you'll realize that whenever you're about to share something, your camera is activated, and it can capture a lot of details about you like your skin color, or snapshots of where you are... App makers have been over-reaching in privacy for ages now, and you're always giving up something personal for using any social service, whether it's your money, time spent watching ads, unrewarded labor in generating their content, or your privacy. I don't do any surveys, they're often driven by mis-guided objectives that don't help user experience at all.
- MandieD 5y agoThanks for reminding me to renew the bit of electrical tape I usually keep over the “selfie” camera (but had fallen off).
- winternett 5y agoYes! a roll of black electrical tape is man's best friend in 2021+ :)
- peakaboo 5y ago
- csomar 5y agoYoutube ads have reached the point of ridiculous. Many people, in the early days, moved from TV to Youtube to avoid ads. But the last time I used the apps (on the iPhone) to listen to a song, I had two unskip-able ads before and one later. Today, I bother with their HTML website on Safari (because of iOS ad block, it seems that I miss most of the ads) but their web app is shitty (and maybe being made intentionally shitty?).
- Scoundreller 5y agoI’m struggling with html Gmail on iOS Chrome. It keeps jumping as I click on an email or category and clicks the wrong thing. Maybe for the past 3 months? I’ve got the same it’s intentionally shittier feeling too.
- gtirloni 5y agoYouTube Premium doesn't have ads. You get what you pay for.
- 999900000999 5y agoI pay for YouTube music for this very reason. Comes with ad free YouTube. I actually respect Google isn't a charity,but I value my time enough to not waste it on ads.
- zo1 5y agoI pay for YT music and just a few weeks ago started getting some sort of ad inside the YT music app. It's getting ridiculous.
- bagacrap 5y agoI have also experienced this. I hope it is a bug, but it also might be a result of using the same account on multiple screens (whereas before it would just stop playback on one).
- t-writescode 5y agoI would like to know more. I haven’t experienced this. I’ve had YT Premium ever since it was a thing and use YT Music relatively regularly.
- a5aAqU 5y agoI wonder if it's to measure things like critical thinking skills and compare them with the videos people watch. The average American reads at 7th-8th grade level and might not know what "false dichotomy" means, so it could be useful data. It's also a logical fallacy, so it might give an indication about whether a person has been exposed to the ideas of logical fallacies. "People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months."
- nailer 5y ago> "People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months." Huh that's odd, I was thinking the opposite - people with critical thinking skills are often labelled as radical for disagreeing with logical flaws in the current mainstream narrative. Witness: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Russiagate, ore more recently the Rittenhouse 'white supremacist' theory.
- sebow 5y ago
- bogwog 5y agoThere should be a law that requires any data collecting companies to list the inferences that they are planning to make from the data they collect. Once the study is complete, they should be required to destroy the data and inform customers. A question like in the OP seems like it’s trying to figure out your level of education, which is something that could be used in discriminatory ways, not to mention that it’s not something everyone wants to share.
- 3np 5y agoCan someone expand on what this is? How does it come up for you and how often? I watch YT on the regular, combination of different platforms and entry points. Definitely not always with adblock. Wasn’t even aware this was a thing until now.
- zeruch 5y agoThe sooner the adtech economy collapses, the better.