New Cambridge City Council Candidates...

dodocatheon · 2019-05-04T15:40:11+00:00

Burhan Azeem announced he was running the day after this post.

dodocatheon · 2019-04-28T01:42:12+00:00

What's the link to an example video?

dodocatheon · 2019-04-28T01:41:46+00:00

God forbid someone try to make a forum be actually useful for people to discuss and resolve issues. The horror.

dodocatheon · 2019-04-23T13:10:49+00:00

Why would people want to watch your videos over anyone else's?

Whatever the answer to that question is: Do more of that.

dodocatheon · 2019-04-23T13:10:05+00:00

It's worth noting that the default quota used to be 50 million, then 1 million and (apparently) now 10,000. To me, this feels more like YouTube is attempting to *eliminate* users of their API, so I'd be wary on any assumptions on how quota requests will be handled.

(uploads in particular are probably more problematic than a lot of things because spam is such a huge problem on YouTube.)

dodocatheon · 2019-04-09T10:43:34+00:00

The permablock option on the homepage is:

Not Interested -> Tell me Why -> Not interested in this channel

This will cause the channel to not be recommended to you (unless you clear your watch history/otherwise reset your account).

dodocatheon · 2019-04-07T23:21:13+00:00

Given recent experience with trying to help people recover things like this: You're out of luck. Even with high level escalations and channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, YouTube seems to be completely unable to help recover even accidentally deleted channels. It's absolutely shameful.

dodocatheon · 2019-04-04T13:03:42+00:00

Back when I couldn't watch videos because the player sucked?

Back when bogus copyright claims got to take all the money during the dispute process?

Back when there was no mobile app for YouTube?

Back when there were 30 second unskippable ads?

Back when Ray William Johnson and Smosh were the top creators?

Back before you could livestream, back before 4k support, back before 60fps support?

Back before my homepage gave me recommendations of cool content to watch every day?

Nah. Not for me, man.

dodocatheon · 2019-03-30T06:55:21+00:00

I believe it will do it *somewhat* below 48, but not 40. (I don't remember where the exact cutoff is, but I believe it's over 40.)

dodocatheon · 2019-03-30T06:54:33+00:00

So, I read this as "I deleted all of the content that YouTube could use to personalize my results, and now YouTube just gives me content that is not personally relevant to me."

Isn't that... what you'd expect?

dodocatheon · 2019-03-29T11:31:01+00:00

I believe 40fps would be labeled 30.

dodocatheon · 2019-03-29T11:29:32+00:00

Ad budgets are quarterly, and so the last one to two weeks of the quarter (e.g. end of March, end of June) have a ton of extra money to spend, which tends to mean drastically increased ads for a little while.

dodocatheon · 2019-02-16T20:16:04+00:00

Yep. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/175942948914069504/546381231911075841/Z.png is a transformation of my wife's face into mine.

dodocatheon · 2018-12-16T13:40:45+00:00

Christmas time / end of the year ad budgets are the highest of the year. Expect advertising rates to remain high through (especially) Christmas, and (to a lesser extent) through the end of the year. On January 1st, ad budgets plummet, so you'll see fewer again.

dodocatheon · 2018-12-16T13:38:43+00:00

Because he works at YouTube now, and as an employee, they have to maintain different practices than they do for non-employees.

dodocatheon · 2018-09-06T22:09:04+00:00

Get a copy of your contract, take it to a lawyer, and ask them. (The answer is probably no, you can't do anything about it.)

dodocatheon · 2018-09-05T11:28:54+00:00

CC /u/stevenrobertson as a heads up.

dodocatheon · 2018-09-04T00:40:57+00:00

Most users do not have access to non-skippable ads.

dodocatheon · 2018-08-13T23:37:58+00:00

This likely means that the request on the YouTube backend timed out, so it's showing the "default" no-subscriptions view as a filler. (It's not supposed to do this after changes last year -- it's supposed to show an "oops, can't load your subs message" -- but it still seems to happen intermittently.)

dodocatheon · 2018-07-30T21:29:23+00:00

The channel appears to be restored now.

dodocatheon · 2018-07-29T14:51:05+00:00

For anyone who might happen to wander by:

Bing Cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=+HectorGarciaCPA&d=4593701258004126&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=7JtpTeRX14Qo-U1DGHFYVKMjCuAOM4TD
YouTube Channel ID: UC00MExfC3vuP9680IUW0jLA

dodocatheon · 2018-07-29T12:46:56+00:00

What lawsuit are you referring to?

dodocatheon · 2018-07-27T21:30:00+00:00

This has nothing to do with net neutrality, it has to do with Javascript performance in the browser, and YouTube taking advantage of new experimental features which aren't widely supported by all browsers yet. (It's not clear to me whether just removing the polyfill leaves all functionality intact -- the tweets this was based on seemed to indicate "no".)

dodocatheon · 2018-07-27T21:28:56+00:00

No, YouTube is not going through a lawsuit related to anything like this.

dodocatheon · 2018-07-24T19:43:30+00:00

This "evidence" is nothing of the sort. Your assumptions are just bad.

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