This is a very similar question to piracy vs unauthorised AI training and I think the underlying thing is power and agency.
It’s absolutely possible, consistent and valid to be for something in a situation where it equalises power and against it in a situation where it skews it even worse towards inequality.
Reminds me of some of the anticompetitive behaviors that Amazon has long engaged in. Among other practices, they use their privileged position in the marketplace to gain insight into markets, then force sellers out of business by producing the same products at a loss. In this way, third party sellers on Amazon serve the purpose of conducting market research for Amazon.
It’s remarkable that Apple has been able to generally maintain such a cordial relationship with developers for this long. Hopefully change is coming.
Money talks. They can continue making these anti-competitive moves indefinitely, while the regulators allow it. Just look at a fine that Amazon got hit with this week. It's not even a rounding error for them, but would put another business into the grave instantly.
When your brand is worth 3 trillion doll hairs, some minuscule fine won't even put a dent into your plans
Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one's horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.
I mean, if this is basically Twitter's Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I'm all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it's the last thing that hasn't been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.
This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.
I would never go as far as to say that they're "quality," but I do think YT comment sections aren't the complete shitshow that they were a decade or so ago. It really does depend on the channel though too.
Damn I miss those. Nowadays it's really hard to find a video that's in another language and has subtitles. The only subtitles you will find are the automatically-generated ones, which suck
They're at least understandable (usually), but they're like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.
Yeah but it's not that accurate, and it leaves most normal mobile users out of the picture. I know YouTube knew exactly what they were doing when they removed dislikes, but it still seems absolutely insane to remove such a useful tool for sifting through the bullshit.
Ooooh boy it must feel super special to have this secret knowledge that nobody else but you can seem to keep up with. Almost as if it's bullshit.
Tell me, based my one reply to you, who am I following? Is anyone who disagrees with you automatically a "follower"? That would seem a little too convenient, no?
The fact is you're a basic-ass, run of the mill contrarian. Most of us have learned how to deal with people like you in our real lives, but it's always a little bit sad to see someone who clearly doesn't have anyone in their life to tell them to shut the fuck up every now and then.
So here, I'll do everyone a service: Shut the fuck up.
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