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Why does a random content farm control youtube.com/playlists?

32 points by lswainemoore 3y ago

xigency 3y ago
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Racing0461 3y ago
it's all content farms.
klyrs 3y ago
Because youtube hasn't siezed it from them yet? What I'd want to know is what percentage of netizens* even know that you can just add stuff to a url willy-nilly. * as I type this word, the cognoscenti can literally hear my bones creak
- michaelteter 3y ago
  Typical people don't add stuff to a URL, but if they see a link that says "youtube.com/playlists", they will probably not expect it to be some garbage channel not affiliated with Youtube.
  - andersa 3y ago
    The typical user will never see the url because they use the YouTube app on their phone.
- LadyCailin 3y ago
  A related topic that probably most people don’t know about is the public suffix list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
judge2020 3y ago
Because YT reserved /playlist and not /playlists. They also haven't reserved /watchs or /watched. People will quickly realize that /playlists loads some random channel they don't care about and will click away.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  Honestly I'm surprised that YT would let users have anything like a top level path; I'd expect it to be all youtube.com/u/myuser/$FOO where FOO can be a video or playlist or whatever.
  - judge2020 3y ago
    I have to imagine it's for backwards compatibility. Seems to have been a choice made in 2008[0] if not before, although new handles are primarily accessible via `/@handle`. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtube.com/fred https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtu...
- judge2020 3y ago
  To add: the top video only has 10k views over 2 months. YT is watched by billions of people every day, 5k people a month accidentally going to /playlists probably isn't worth the cost of kicking back their username and paying the engineers to make the commit reserving that url.
iamvfx 3y ago
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zeruch 3y ago
Because "enshittificationj". I realize that is horribly glib, but it's also horribly accurate.

32 points by lswainemoore 3y ago

xigency 3y ago

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Racing0461 3y ago

it's all content farms.

klyrs 3y ago

Because youtube hasn't siezed it from them yet? What I'd want to know is what percentage of netizens* even know that you can just add stuff to a url willy-nilly. * as I type this word, the cognoscenti can literally hear my bones creak

michaelteter 3y ago
Typical people don't add stuff to a URL, but if they see a link that says "youtube.com/playlists", they will probably not expect it to be some garbage channel not affiliated with Youtube.
- andersa 3y ago
  The typical user will never see the url because they use the YouTube app on their phone.
LadyCailin 3y ago
A related topic that probably most people don’t know about is the public suffix list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List

judge2020 3y ago

Because YT reserved /playlist and not /playlists. They also haven't reserved /watchs or /watched. People will quickly realize that /playlists loads some random channel they don't care about and will click away.

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
Honestly I'm surprised that YT would let users have anything like a top level path; I'd expect it to be all youtube.com/u/myuser/$FOO where FOO can be a video or playlist or whatever.
- judge2020 3y ago
  I have to imagine it's for backwards compatibility. Seems to have been a choice made in 2008[0] if not before, although new handles are primarily accessible via `/@handle`. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtube.com/fred https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135434/https://www.youtu...
judge2020 3y ago
To add: the top video only has 10k views over 2 months. YT is watched by billions of people every day, 5k people a month accidentally going to /playlists probably isn't worth the cost of kicking back their username and paying the engineers to make the commit reserving that url.

iamvfx 3y ago

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zeruch 3y ago

Because "enshittificationj". I realize that is horribly glib, but it's also horribly accurate.