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

The fix was there, but they removed it. The dislike button. Fucking unbelievable how stupid these companies are.

So, they created an algorithm that will only reward clickbait and completely ignore honest titles and thumbnails, then complain about their platform being one giant clickbait? Huh...

Or, you can bring back the dislike button and stop promoting videos with high dislike ratios.

[X] Doubt

Better title: “YouTube is cracking down on click bait - here’s how”

YouTube is clickbait. This is like them saying they're going to crack down on their own advertising model.

Shout out to DeArrow, from the same developer as SponsorBlock. It replaces video titles and thumbnails with community-provided non-clickbait versions. Available as a browser extension, and is also built-in to several third-party YouTube apps, such as SmartTube.

YouTube ruined Christmas. I can't stand my relatives anymore, they watch every conspiracy clip and now they are a thousand miles down the rabbit hole and I can't handle them for more than a few days a year. I hate evil Google or alphabet, or whatever they call themselves.

Smells like PR copy parading as news, what click bait was actually removed vs what they said they would? What's the criteria to qualify as click bait?

What the hell is wrong with the people here? Actual positive news for a while and what does Lemmy have to say? Complaining and cynicism. No wonder you're so miserable all the time.

Like, we will be able to make negative feedback about a video again? Oh no nevermind it's just bs again...

*Only directly misleading clickbait. So they'll continue to promote other forms of clickbait like specific thumbnails or capitalized & ambiguous titles.

Sure, as soon as X cracks down on misinformation

About time. This stuff has been cancer on YouTube for years.

What? Most likely in favor of more profitable clickbait.

I won't be happy until they ban shocked Pikachu "show us your O face" thumbnails.

I logged off and then started looking for titties....the tape project, dancers wearing next to nothing, African tribe dancing naked, body paint, see thru lingerie hauls, cleaning naked hauls, breast feeding tities....my YouTube is now embarrassing pornographical without me loving in.

YouTube is not for kids.