Web Content YouTube: News of the Premier Web Video Service

[Husky_Khan]

Maybe this thread can be a repository for interesting news stories concernimg the operation of YouTube (as opposed to its creators or content or whatnot).

YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions

500,000 signatures aren't stopping YouTube from shutting down accessibility feature.

arstechnica.com

YouTube is canceling crowdsourced subtitles on its platform. It was announced last Summer and despite outcry from the deaf community, foreign language speakers and a petition with a half million signatures, YouTube is moving forward with this initiative and doijg so during Deaf Awareness Week no less.

YouTube states it's free inbuilt feature has low usage and is open to spam and abuse and thus recommends people pay for a service like Amara.org since "many of you rely on community captions."

But apparently many isn't enough to justify keeping around a free feature... Happy Deaf Awareness Week everyone!

 

[gral]

YouTube is canceling crowdsourced subtitles on its platform. It was announced last Summer and despite outcry from the deaf community, foreign language speakers and a petition with a half million signatures, YouTube is moving forward with this initiative and doijg so during Deaf Awareness Week no less.

The optics on this are almost as good as when the company I work for fired a bunch of disabled employees, because they didn't need to keep them hired(and keeping them hired is much more expensive than keeping a non-disabled person hired)... two weeks before Christmas. Actually, it looks worse, because not many people found out about what my company did, and the fact that's YouTube doing this shit ensures it'll get some air time.

 

[Husky_Khan]

YouTube is unrolling a pilot project to remove public dislikes so that only the content creators can see how disliked their videos are. Apparently this is an effort to alleviate the negative impact of well being upon YouTubers who are tragically impacted by Public Dislikes.

YouTube Under Fire After Announcing That Public Dislikes Will Be Hidden, Some Content Creators Speculate Disney/Star Wars Is To Blame

YouTube may soon be disabling dislikes on their platform, and some content creators believe Disney and Star Wars are to blame.

boundingintocomics.com

Looks like the next evolution of this whole thread.

 

[gral]

YouTube is unrolling a pilot project to remove public dislikes so that only the content creators can see how disliked their videos are. Apparently this is an effort to alleviate the negative impact of well being upon YouTubers who are tragically impacted by Public Dislikes.

YouTube Under Fire After Announcing That Public Dislikes Will Be Hidden, Some Content Creators Speculate Disney/Star Wars Is To Blame

YouTube may soon be disabling dislikes on their platform, and some content creators believe Disney and Star Wars are to blame.

boundingintocomics.com

Looks like the next evolution of this whole thread.

...
... so, to protect YouTubers, they're making it so only those same YouTubers can see the number of dislikes?

 

[ParadiseLost]

Honestly, if you can't handle dislikes of all things, you should not be on the internet.

This is pure nonsense.

 

[Captain X]

Mainly because of all the White House videos getting dislike bombed into oblivion.

 

[Atarlost]

Mainly because of all the White House videos getting dislike bombed into oblivion.

If they can't handle the dislikes they should resign their offices and retire from politics.

 

[Robovski]

Remember to comment Dislike (if you can).

 

[Terthna]

Welp, it finally happened; dislikes are gone. The corporations and the political establishment got their way once again, and Youtube is now yet another step closer to being a platform for them, and not the average person.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Welp, it finally happened; dislikes are gone. The corporations and the political establishment got their way once again, and Youtube is now yet another step closer to being a platform for them, and not the average person.

The internet isn't taking that lying down...

Browser Extension Brings Back Dislike Count to YouTube Videos

The extension uses Google's API to archive the dislike count for videos and repost them.

www.pcmag.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

YouTube is considering putting 4K Videos Behind a Premium Paywall.

YouTube considering locking 4K videos behind its Premium subscription (Update)

YouTube appears to be testing out whether it should make 4K and higher resolution videos exclusive to YouTube Premium.

www.androidauthority.com

 

[ParadiseLost]

I think that's more likely to damage 4K's usage than it is to make people subscribe.

 

[Atarlost]

I think that's more likely to damage 4K's usage than it is to make people subscribe.

That would cut their bandwidth costs so it may not be a bad business move if people still watch the videos at lower resolution.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

YouTube is considering putting 4K Videos Behind a Premium Paywall.

YouTube considering locking 4K videos behind its Premium subscription (Update)

YouTube appears to be testing out whether it should make 4K and higher resolution videos exclusive to YouTube Premium.

www.androidauthority.com

UGH!

 

[Bear Ribs]

 

[gral]

Rumble thanks YouTube for their efforts in making Rumble more popular.