“Wait for it” - I’m like… bitch, why don’t you just add some fast forwarding to the vid, or just cut out the unimportant parts?
Because the tube is all about watchtime and engagement. Engagement includes any interaction with the video, such as comments and downvotes.
The wild part is, at least on tiktok, downvoting or selecting “not interested” seems to give me MORE of that content. It’s as if leaving the video on your screen for longer is giving that video more points in the algo than your expressed disinterest. What works better (on tiktok) is to scroll away with the minimum amount of time spent looking at the video.
Makes me appreciate when there’s a big message in the first second that says “wait until the end!” I swipe so fast when I see that. Otherwise I might have to wait to hear what they’re doing in this video, which would boost them in the algorithm.
Ugh, this is even worse now, since the dislikes are hidden.
ReturnYouTubeDislike and DeArrow/SponsorBlock are your best friends. Even available in ReVanced for Android
Those are only using the ratio of likes and disliles of the users using those extensions.
So it can bias in a way that, say (this is an example, idk if this is true), the users of the extension are more “anti-windows” than the general population. So a video on the announcement of a new Windows release, would show as having more dislikes since the ratio of people who dislike Windows is higher.
(That’s how I understand the extension anyway, correct me if I’m wrong)
Pretty much spot on. I believe they also saved the dislike counts on lots of videos from before the dislike removal, so it’s only new dislikes not reflected accurately
Also, you can help fix the bias! The more people using the extension and disliking things they for like, the more accurate it’ll become
(There were also plans for some kind of API that would link to YouTube accounts to allow content creators to feed the true dislike counts into it constantly, but I believe they were abandoned due to privacy and safety concerns as it required a lot of permissions and essentially root level access into your account to function)
I’d also add DeArrow to remove clickbait thumbnails and titles, and Untrap to completely modify nearly everything, such as removing (hiding, really) shorts, like count, view count, comments altogether, even hiding the subscribe button among many other options.
Depending on your browser, you can look for a “bring back the dislikes” extension. There are usually a few.
Really the only way to make an impact on a video you dislike is to watch as little as possible and do not interact at all. Leave no comment or like/dislike.
Which really sucks, because information like # of dislikes and informative comments are the only real way to determine if the content is worth the time.
At least on youtube you can skip ahead. But whenever i see these caption or those very obnoxiously descriptive short, i’ll hit downvote and content like these won’t shows up as much.
The short video version of “you gotta watch this show I love. Just suffer through the first 12 seasons and it gets SO GOOD!”
It’s as if their incentives (increased view time) drive behavior
“Read that again”
Fuck you, I wish I could unread it from the first time.
If they could spell it correctly, it’d be better.
nobody:
absolutely nobody:
Always has been. 🔫
