YouTube wants to get you watching more news from “authoritative sources”
www.theverge.com
And news publishers creating more shortform news.
  • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
    13·
    11 months ago

    Hopefully this will curb that weird conspiracy theory right wing pipeline that the algorithm pushes people into, but I fear given how mature youtube is that the damage may have already been done.

    Also I always love seeing them push short form content, when youtube used to have LOTs of shortform content but they adjusted the algorithm like 10 years ago to punish it. It screwed over a lot of the animators and comedy troupes that used to make up a lot of the site back then and ushered in the era of the video essay(as well as youtubers slowing down their speech and repeating themselves in order to get to minute 10).

    The shorts dont bother me as much but the media player does. Like theres no playback controls, its portrait only, an it doesnt even let you fullscreen if youre on browser.

    • TheForkOfDamocles@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Minus one for that media player. Lack of controls is really irritating. I don’t care to be forced into vertical videos, either—despite what some puppets think.

      • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
        2·
        11 months ago

        Its funny because tiktock has a landscape mode now and full controls. The thing theyre trying to copy has more rich controls but they stay on track with painfully limited media player. I use an extension on browser that just opens them in a normal player.

  • doolijb@beehaw.org
    1·
    11 months ago

    I would appreciate it if my search results weren’t listed with Indian trash news channels macerating as American… “CNN news-18”, “LiveNOW from FOX”, “TIMES LIVE”, etc etc.