It seems that after a decade of promoting click-bait over content that YouTube are adding - dare I say - People! Yes, people to help untangle the mess of disinformation, chicanery, fraud, and hoax videos in recommendations. A good thing? I tend to think so, but let's wait and see if YouTube messes this one up.
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That YouTube post about new recommendation controls: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-to-improve.html
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17 thoughts on “Youtube to curb hoax and junk science videos”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Crane says:

    Now if they could just push back on copywrite trolls… that would be great.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wire Tamer says:

    One thing I've noticed in the past few weeks is algorithms are feeding me a LOT of 'gun porn' and more disturbingly… 'heaven weapons porn': how a mortar works… how a grenade works… look at the awesome fire power of the A10 Warthog… or such and such tank.
    it's not so much a 'pro gun' push, its more like a brute force normalisation campaign for weapons of war

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PETER Liebe says:

    Youtube is a NSA data collecting and manipulation tool, anybody riding the wave is promoting their cause.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Geoffrey Waldo says:

    Clearly presented. Yes, very well said.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Crowe says:

    If it's Any Consolation YouTube is Recommending the Heck Out of your Videos on My Feed. There's a Lot I Don't Like About YouTube. Recently I Unsubscribed to All the Channels I was Subscribed to. What I've Noticed Lately is YouTube Claiming I Viewed Videos I Never Clicked on .As I Scroll My Recommended If I slow Down Just a Little the Videos I Slow On Are Listed with the Videos I Actually Clicked On & Watched. Seems Kinda Dishonest. I Wonder do they Do that to Unfairly Charge Advertisers?

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Walter Carter says:

    Apollo is poison…. social poison. And for many, it's career poison. Because it's career poison, it's also poisoned relationships within my family. The Apollo topic today is equivalent to slavery in 1860. And like 1860, people have picked their sides with no one budging.

    "A man will never understand a thing when his livelihood require that he not understand it". Mark Twain True for slavery in 1860 and currently true for Apollo.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars technopoptart says:

    are you bummed out that there have been almost no changes made since this video was created and the few that have been made are for the worse?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Safety Harbor Firearms says:

    I'm one of the causal viewers ….I too was unsubscribed. When I do visit your channel I watch multiple videos in a row. Apollo gear is super interesting…

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars snatt420 says:

    for fun

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars snatt420 says:

    try making some fringe wacko stuff

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alexander Sannikov says:

    Hi Fran. Just wanted to let you know that some people do unsubscribe legitimately. For example, I unsubscribed about 3 years ago when you were posting a lot of videos about entrepreneurship, frantone kickstarter and similar stuff that I was not really interseted in. I'm interested in explanation-type videos, or where you discuss some vintage tech, etc and back then I thought that it was no longer going to be your direction. I see you posted a bunch of new interesting stuff, so I'll have to catch up.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 240 Volts says:

    I have come upon this video again, it didn't age well. What has come out as of late about what google is doing is sinister. Censorship of the democrats opposition, messing with algorithms. 1984 and Brave new world is what big tech has brought in.

    Why is there always only one accepted way of thinking? Anything that goes against the 'official'' mainstream is deemed hoax, conspiracy theory, etc etc. to discredit.

    How did we get to the point that people believe that carbon tax will change climate?
    I could make several other points on other topics as well. TV makes people stupid. Who fact checks the left-wing fact checkers?

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GORF says:

    Let the free market decide…. how about that?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cosmoslogic says:

    Well done Fran you are right on target, compathion will slap you in the face so hard you might see the light after it is to late to recover from it. ie browsers are a prime example of this. It is very, very hard to fix a stupid company and people.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Cook says:

    Somehow my subscription dissappeared, which is strange because Fran has one of my top favourite channels ! Re-subscribed. BTW a lot of the rubbish science and history is still being recommended by YouTube, all I do is "DISLIKE" them, after giving them a thumbs down and maybe a negative comment.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars andrei says:

    I'll take you over the hat. Where are we going to eat?

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shinigami Lee says:

    YouTube often uses sources that are unreliable. Especially those sources that are from personal opinions. The problem we have is the people who are the problem are the ones making the decisions.

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