YouTube is testing people now?
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I get loads of financial scams, especially crypto scams. It used to be Russian wife services and gambling. Probably because I turned off ad personalization for my Google account, so I get the lowest grade ad stock there is.
I'll mirror the parent's sentiment. It blows my mind every time i see someone else use YouTube and see ads.
I'm pretty sure a significant fraction of Google's revenue is coming directly or indirectly from scammers.
“YouTube recommended this to me, I never imagine YouTube / Google would be trying to scam me”.
Today, I bother with their HTML website on Safari (because of iOS ad block, it seems that I miss most of the ads) but their web app is shitty (and maybe being made intentionally shitty?).
Maybe for the past 3 months?
I’ve got the same it’s intentionally shittier feeling too.
Google is highly profitable, take the subscription fee and donate it to someone who will help people instead of just develop more sophisticated ads and ways to remove blocking from browsers…
I’m happy to help support YT creators in this way.
Thanks. May be I will check it out again.
At the end of the day, they’re advertising companies trying to be something more.
Also, pretty sure I pay $10 not $15.
The less insight YT has into me the better.
That being said, I understand how this could be a negative to some.
Missing out on YouTube content discovery isn't a huge loss.
guess it depends on how much youtube you consume. personally it was a no brainer.. less than an hour's worth of work a month to pay for it? now i only see ads when i get signed out of youtube.
And it’s $12/mo from the site (not in-app).
Also, why is it nuts?
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Although GCS is intended for boring stuff like which marketting logo or slogan is best, you can actually use it for any question, that doesn't violate the terms. In the past I've used it for joke surveys as well as academic research. Although I haven't done it for a while in case some turker flags me and gets my whole google account banned.
The average American reads at 7th-8th grade level and might not know what "false dichotomy" means, so it could be useful data. It's also a logical fallacy, so it might give an indication about whether a person has been exposed to the ideas of logical fallacies.
"People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months."
Huh that's odd, I was thinking the opposite - people with critical thinking skills are often labelled as radical for disagreeing with logical flaws in the current mainstream narrative. Witness: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Russiagate, ore more recently the Rittenhouse 'white supremacist' theory.
Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller
Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
Depending on how worried you are about potential load and/or egress costs, you could go for somewhere with cheaper egress as well if you want.
You’d also want to compare google drive, Dropbox, box, Amazon drive (Amazon photos), iCloud storage, and backblaze
You can use an instance that let's you upload or you can run your own on a host somewhere and federated it.
Theres an app for Android and Win/Mac/Linux called Freetube that uses Invidious.
There are a lot of free Invidious instances out there. You can also self host one if you want.
Use it! And if you can, donate to one of the public Invidious instances.
A question like in the OP seems like it’s trying to figure out your level of education, which is something that could be used in discriminatory ways, not to mention that it’s not something everyone wants to share.
And it was displaying a YT video.
My sewing machine is decade+ old second hand I got for € 20, no YT.
Reminds me of the time a dating company did research (maybe okcupid?) on the best question to ask for matching, and it was something like "do you believe in angels?".
It's also why many platforms are handicapping their web sites and why some only allow access through mobile apps, because web site interactions don't give them deeper tracking cues they want, like access to device cameras and microphones, without alerting users first.
If you use TikTok or IG, you'll realize that whenever you're about to share something, your camera is activated, and it can capture a lot of details about you like your skin color, or snapshots of where you are... App makers have been over-reaching in privacy for ages now, and you're always giving up something personal for using any social service, whether it's your money, time spent watching ads, unrewarded labor in generating their content, or your privacy.
I don't do any surveys, they're often driven by mis-guided objectives that don't help user experience at all.