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| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 28, 2023, 04:50:26 pm ---I don't even have a channel I just make comments on videos, and I got a weird message from YouTube about breaking community guidelines. No mention of which comment or which guideline. The feedback system that youtube offers just pops up a text box and a "send" button that doesn't do anything. Wonderful. --- End quote --- Never had that, but had a number of comments automatically censored (obvious when they disappear just a few s after posting). One thing that many are aware of now, but just saying just in case, do no put links inside YT comments. Your comment will get removed automatically. YT doesn't tolerate any link whatsoever apparently. This is unfortunate when you want to prove or illustrate a point with a source. For doing so, just cite the reference but do not make it a clickable link. |
| .RC.:
It is a sad state of affairs when to become quickly popular on youtube it seems you need xx chromosomes, and clothing designed to show off your assets. While the chromosome issue would be a problem maybe Dave would do better with some artificial enhancements and a low cut shirt. |
| Fraser:
It appears that Sorin has discovered the source of his Invalid Traffic and found a way to re-establish his income stream…… https://youtu.be/okfSCAJqX6E?si=rqrFhG7f4G4UJ6wg For those not wanting to watch his video, it is viewers using Ad blockers that he says causes the Invalid Traffic event. He created a long video and asked viewers to switch off their ad blockers. The video saw a huge increase in financial performance and no Invalid traffic warning. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 28, 2023, 10:08:00 pm --- --- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 28, 2023, 04:50:26 pm ---I don't even have a channel I just make comments on videos, and I got a weird message from YouTube about breaking community guidelines. No mention of which comment or which guideline. The feedback system that youtube offers just pops up a text box and a "send" button that doesn't do anything. Wonderful. --- End quote --- Never had that, but had a number of comments automatically censored (obvious when they disappear just a few s after posting). One thing that many are aware of now, but just saying just in case, do no put links inside YT comments. Your comment will get removed automatically. YT doesn't tolerate any link whatsoever apparently. This is unfortunate when you want to prove or illustrate a point with a source. For doing so, just cite the reference but do not make it a clickable link. --- End quote --- Almost. There is exactly one kind of link they tolerate: links to YouTube itself. So linking to another video, playlist, or channel won’t get deleted. Anything else is gone within seconds. Similarly, using too many numerals (!) will get them deleted, as will various words (many completely innocuous) on secret blacklists. |
| Veteran68:
--- Quote from: Fraser on October 13, 2023, 11:32:34 am ---It appears that Sorin has discovered the source of his Invalid Traffic and found a way to re-establish his income stream…… ... For those not wanting to watch his video, it is viewers using Ad blockers that he says causes the Invalid Traffic event. He created a long video and asked viewers to switch off their ad blockers. The video saw a huge increase in financial performance and no Invalid traffic warning. --- End quote --- Yeah I watched this yesterday. It aligns with what many suspected. Advertisers have been beating up Google lately because they're paying for ads that aren't being seen due to ad blockers. YT has made it known recently that they were going after ad blockers, so the timing was certainly suspect when all this invalid traffic stuff started. But why couldn't YT just tell their creators this instead of silently punishing them for their users' behavior? Why treat some creators more harshly than others? Why imply or in some cases directly suggest that the creators are generating invalid traffic through nefarious means (watching their own ads, recruiting people to watch their ads on a loop, etc.) instead of just saying up front that it's due to ad blockers? Look, I understand that nothing is free. I can't imagine the costs of running YT's infrastructure, so they need a revenue stream, which is primarily from ads. Ad blockers hurt that stream. So I can't blame them for going after ad blockers. But don't punish the creators for something they have zero control over. The way YT has botched their handling of this is abysmal. As I've said before, I don't mind unobtrusive ads, like banners on a page. I don't mind sponsorship shoutouts within a video. I *HATE* ads that disrupt my experience, such as popups, redirects, or unskippable ads that interrupt a video. Because I consume so much YT, I'm a Premium subscriber. Considering the value I get from YT, it's a pittance to pay and I get the satisfaction of no ads AND the creators get paid from my subscription. It's a win-win for me and the creators as well. But I recognize that for some it's an expense that's hard to justify. I wonder if YT would offer a cheaper version of Premium, say $5/month, with only the ad skipping and not the other features like offline play and YT Music, it would go a long way towards resolving this issue. |
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