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No You in YouTube
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A COUPLE of years ago we wrote about Minisforum spamming "Linux" to push Windows PCs. Since then we've mentioned in a lot of videos that Google's (or Gulag) YouTube (sometimes I call it GulagTube because of the way it treats and views "creators") was doing reputation laundering for Bill Gates. He was paying Google (via shell entities) for it and also paying pertinent channels in YouTube. Same as in Twitter.
"It's only getting worse and worse -- to the point where YouTube as a platform is hardly better than television/broadcast (it probably contains a lot more falsehoods than mainstream/corporate media and it's curated by censorship/ranking for political purposes)."Nowadays when I end up in the domain of YouTube (official domain, not proxies) I get bombarded/distracted by promotional spam. This wasn't always so bad and it's only getting worse all the time. There's no real effort to show you what's good for you; it's about maximising YouTube's revenue. To make matters worse, many of the remaining channels have adopted ludicrous labels such as "influencer" and henceforth promoted products instead of relaying honest information. In recent years this became like a 'cancer' that destroys even "Linux"-centric channels, not just in the "description" box but also the videos themselves.
The bottom line is, YouTube is an awful source for information not just because of the way Google steers people towards spam/misinformation; even those who attempt to bypass Google's algorithm/s (or "Hey Hi") might end up presented with covert marketing. It's only getting worse and worse -- to the point where YouTube as a platform is hardly better than television/broadcast (it probably contains a lot more falsehoods than mainstream/corporate media and it's curated by censorship/ranking for political purposes). ⬆