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YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community (techcrunch.com)
The earlier reports were right when they said YouTube was working on launching its own social networking service for content creators. Instead of the "YouTube Backstage" branding, YouTube has decided to call their social networking service "YouTube Community," which allows content creators to use text, GIFs, and images to better engage viewers. Given the controversy surrounding YouTube in regard to demonetizing videos that are not deemed "friendly to advertisers," many YouTube creators have been or are thinking about leaving the site and joining competing services. These new tools are designed to help keep creators from departing to competing platforms. TechCrunch reports: YouTube has been testing the new service over the past several months with a handful of creators in order to gain feedback. It's launching the service into public beta with this group of early testers, and will make it available to a wider group of creators in the "month's ahead," it says. Access to this expanded feature set is made available to the creators and their viewers by way of a new "Community" tab on their channels. From here, creators can share things like text posts, images, GIFs and other content, which the audience can thumbs up and down, like the videos themselves, as well as comment on. Viewers will see these posts in their "Subscriptions" feed in the YouTube mobile application, and can also choose to receive push notifications on these posts from their favorite creators, YouTube says." Only time will tell whether or not this new move will be better received than YouTube's Google+ integration...
That's what I was wondering. To change how my icon looked in YouTube, I had to go into Google+ and edit it. So now, would those capabilities by in the new YouTube community? And would YouTube community automatically take out all Google+ members whose sole reason for getting in was via YouTube?
Recalls the last efforts with the "Google Plus Finally Gives Up on Its Ineffective, Dangerous Real-Name Policy" (July 17 2014)
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Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Demonetise your videos, tough, suck it up and get a real miserable job like the majority. From a non-you tuber context, I guess that means if you see an ad before the video than that you tuber is an advertiser friendly arse hole very likely to lie to you, to sell what ever it is they are being paid to sell you. No ad and probably they are, well, not advertiser friendly and likely to be genuine in their videos.
This as a broad policy driven by nothing but the Big Shit from Alphabet and pure cynical greed. If Advertisers do not want their commercials to be shown with videos make the fuckers look at them and decide one by one, which videos their ads will be shown with and which will be ignored, rather the secret back room pay to play, revenue censorship.
How about the end user the viewer having a choice. How about being able to block uploaders on you tube when you log in. Peoples who videos you never want to see because they are crap with scammy headlines and lead in images, apparently that crap is advertiser friendly because you get to show more ads. How about counting videos as being seen, only of the majority of the video was viewed and not just the first few seconds to realise the video was crap and drop out.
Evil is as evil does and Google has become a pit of lies.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
The most widely viewed YouTube videos do tend to end up with pretty terrible comments, but there are quite a few smaller, more niche channels have some of the nicest commenters I've encountered anywhere on the internet.