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Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame frequently encourages his YouTube viewers to follow him on alternate platforms. I believe this is in preparation for when he finally
by mulmen 4y ago
Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame frequently encourages his YouTube viewers to follow him on alternate platforms. I believe this is in preparation for when he finally runs afoul of the algorithm and his YouTube presence is no longer viable. If a creator waits until that inevitable moment they don't have much recourse. I'm not sure how a link to an alternate platform can be placed on YouTube with any kind of reach. The best way as far as I can tell is proactively moving the audience to alternate platforms.
- squarefoot 4y ago> I'm not sure how a link to an alternate platform can be placed on YouTube with any kind of reach. Assuming explicit links are disallowed (didn't check) the link could be exported as a torrent hash; it's not a link per se but search engines would find it, and they usually have a pretty long lifetime. As an example, the following hash: 2E28D47963BF639EDAADCA33583546B39156D62D Brings a 10+ years old Debian Linux image. The file would probably be dead now, also younger hashes are a lot easier to find, but all we need is the hash leading somewhere. There are other ways to embed links in a video; for example either a barcode-like pattern on video, or short fsk sequence embedded in audio, that could be translated on the fly by a browser extension into ad address and lead there without any user intervention.
- mulmen 4y agoThe problem is doing this after YouTube deranks you or deletes your account. Nobody will ever see it.