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YouTube is cracking down on clickbait (www.theverge.com)

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 247 points 4 days ago

YouTube says the policy will combat “egregious” clickbait that misleads viewers, with a particular focus on videos related to “breaking news” or “current events.” The company’s examples of egregious clickbait include a video with the title “the president resigned!” that doesn’t actually address a resignation or a “top political news” thumbnail attached to a video with no news content.

This is only going to target garbage-level content. You can still expect the same clickbait-style titles and thumbnails from established creators

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Yeah, this is not even really targeting clickbait, more like putting restrictions on openly malicious content.

[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

unless they pay for it to be shown as an advertisement of course

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