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youtube is getting worthless for current events

posted 6 years ago by strntz (10926)
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Almost every time I go to youtube to look for videos of current events, I end up clicking on a "video" that is nothing more than a string of still pictures, usually accompanied by some crappy music or synthetic voice.

Reporting them does no good.

Since youtube won't let us flag these click bait sites with a click bait button, I wish youtube would provide an option to block all further returns from any and all sites we wish to eliminate from searches.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

[–] strntz (10926) 6 years ago

Possibly, but then they shouldn't throw together these click bait "videos" if they don't have the rights. The other day I had to go through almost a dozen of these looking for an Olympic luge run from a girl from our state. Most were stills until I finally found a video.

[–] brux (14666) 6 years ago

What's worse is that the supposedly brilliant You-Tube AI bot that is supposed to figure out videos you might be interested in doesn't seem to get the idea that maybe for news people do not want 6 month, 1 year or older articles unless they are looking for them specifically.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 6 years ago

Can't stand those "videos" with the synthesised voices, or the stills. Or worse, both.

There were events that happened here where I had to rely on older news from YouTube to get caught up on what had happened, so I'm well aware of what you're referring to.

The only solution I found was to stick to the channels of reliable news sources.