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YouTube will never "crack down" on these guys. They are their money-makes and can do whatever the fuck the want. Clickbait on huge channels is YouTube's bread and butter, even if people just click to comment that the creator sucks, that's still engagement and means there is more money in the ad bids.

Yeah, this is not even really targeting clickbait, more like putting restrictions on openly malicious content.

I'll be even more cynical than that: I think this policy will be abused to suppress legitimate news/current events videos with a POV the oligarchs doesn't approve of (e.g. pro-Palestinian, pro-Adjuster, etc.).

This will address extreme and obvious falsehoods but I still encounter clickbait of the more pedestrian kind everywhere I go. “You’re using your table saw WRONG” or “the 1 table saw trick 99% of people don’t know” etc.

I consider this clickbait: it creates a false sense of urgency and doesn’t convey any information in itself. What is this one trick? Oh I already knew that one, but I had to watch the video to realize that.

It wastes a lot of time and makes things harder to search for. And often these clickbait headlines are not in the video headline where YT can easily scan them, but in the thumbnail graphic in huge letters, where it’s probably harder to automate any moderation for.

I pay for YT premium but this aspect of the experience still feels ad-like and cheap.

Yes, which YT actively encourages people to do. So ultimately nothing really changes.

I've noticed these super annoying news flashes that say like Beyonce fleeing US and shit like that. Super long videos too and they're all trash. Makes it hard to get real news on it

The fix was there, but they removed it.

Return YouTube Dislikes still exists. The likes and dislikes of RYD users are stored in an external database, so Google cannot take them away.

Top talent who made careers on clickbait will not be harmed

Pedophiles on set, no problem

Scamming people, no problem

Advertising and selling spoiled food, no problem

Say suicide, demonetized 🤡

Do comments first. There's so much spam that almost looks legit because of how many upvotes they have.

And maybe stop making comments help the video get more popular

"5 ways YouTube is cracking down on clickbait – #3 will make you shid and fard and cum your pants"

YouTube tried to crack down on clickbait, what happened next will shock you!

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They're doing WHAT!?! --->

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I feel a bit conflicted about that, do I want that extension to hide the terrible clickbaity titles and thumbnails? For me that's a good reason to not watch these videos in the first place

I heard Facebook is spent tons of money to combat election misinformation in 2016 and 2020 and I heard the same story again in 2024. The problem is solved right?

YouTube also decided that every video should be ten minutes long and made the algorithm recommend videos of that length so everyone had to start making their videos ten minutes long even if it made no sense to do so.