This is no shade against uncle dane or jontohil2, this is probably just youtube’s fault

here's what shows up if I click on the video

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    Youtube will also put videos in your feed that you can’t watch because they don’t exist yet. And you can’t hide the nonexistent video because doing so will hide the video when it eventually does exist.

    If you think things couldn’t possibly get any worse, you clearly don’t work for google.

    • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      Don’t some creators exploit that because views count differently on premieres

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      God I hate that.

      You go to click on it and it just says “coming soon!”, but when it does come out, it is already buried in my subscriptions so I forget it was released.

      Missed plenty of Death Battles because of this

  • ReallyKinda@kbin.social
    13·
    7 months ago

    My brother said Apple News does this too— you have the optional ability to subscribe to newspapers using it, but the subscription only content shows up in your feed even if you don’t subscribe. They have an option to block particular publications from your feed as well so he tried that to omit the articles he couldn’t access, but instead of actually removing them it leaves a blank square in that space in your feed saying that you’ve blocked the content. IDK what they’re thinking.

  • AppleTea@lemmy.zipEnglish
    121·
    7 months ago

    very hush hush, but there’s this app called New Pipe, available through F-droid

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      7 months ago

      Google copied the ability to download multiple apps at the same time from F-droid. They’re scared.

      • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        133·
        7 months ago

        Copied what? The ability to multidoulwnload? Like what’s been in Chrome for… forever? Of Firefox… Or Internet Explorer…Or BitTorrent?

        Don’t get all high and mighty acting like F-droid invented the concept.

      • UprisingVoltage@feddit.itEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        Play store is preinstalled on billions of devices, F-Droid is only used by a bunch of (very based) nerds.

        Google is most definitely not scared of F-Droid

  • amio@kbin.social
    9·
    7 months ago

    The videos being paid is not YT’s choice, the channel owner must’ve set that specifically on those ranks for those videos.

    Being visible despite being unavailable, seen 4149743 times before, plain crap, obvious junk with 45 views on a 2 sub channel, already specifically hidden, already specifically blocked, etc. etc etc etc etc… those are definitely Youtube though.

    BlockTube may have a feature for this, it addresses some of those other cases. Or you could potentially hack together a uBlock rule for it (“any video on the front page that has this stupid price tag thing”)

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    uh this might get me hate but this is a rare instance of youtube doing its job and doing it well.

    members videos are basically like patreon but directly on youtube. members who choose to fund a channel get ad-free and exclusive content on top of the knowledge their money/attention is going directly towards their favorite creator and not some random advertiser.

    and youtube is doing its job by advertising this content. it would be a failure of a service if it kept these videos a secret.

    “but it’s annoying”

    it says “members only” right there. just don’t click it and learn to accept that the creators you enjoy need to make a living somehow.

    • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      the knowledge that their money is going directly towards their favourite creator and not some random advertiser.

      The advertisers aren’t getting money by showing you ads unless you buy something, unless you mean YouTube which I think still takes a cut. Also I’ve been getting ‘recommendations’ for videos like those from channels I haven’t even subscribed to so it’s almost certainly not my favourite creator they’re trying to get me to throw money at.

      The YouTube main page is already usually about 16-20% ads (although every now and then it’s less) I don’t like having even fewer serious recommendations.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    YT members is such a sucky program. 30% of the money goes to Google, which is ridiculous. Only 8% goes to Patreon.

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I mean…. By now I really don’t think anyone can genuinely be surprised by anything because it’s clear Google and other companies like them (dominating cyberspace related) are just constantly trying to become more and more insidious.