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>Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago Google still has to routinely invent new techniques to stop spam. This problem is
by ChrisLomont 5y ago
>Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago
Google still has to routinely invent new techniques to stop spam. This problem is not solved - it's an ongoing arms race.
It is also a vastly easier problem - spam filters at google scale work because they see the same spam across zillions of accounts. This is not the case for youtube, where a spammer provides them with far fewer samples, and those are across a much wider space.
These problems are barely related.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoRecently, comment sections of popular YT videos are littered with bots spamming links accompanied by phrases like 'hot girls' and '18+ only'. They're everywhere, and this really doesn't strike me as an inherently hard problem to solve. (In fact, I wonder who these spammers are targeting. Surely the average YT user is smart enough to recognize blatant spam?)
- mrguyorama 5y agoCheck this video by linus tech tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM Some random dude built an anti youtube comment spam tool. Youtube could absolutely fix this problem, they just don't care