I understand that they've massively reduced the compensation creators receive from monetization. This is why the creators all do sponsorships now. But they force creators to monetize to get reach (if the video isn't monetized it won't be recommended, even to subscribers).

My guess is that yeah, now they're going after people's sponsorship revenue by under-reporting views if their monetized content is being viewed by people with adblockers.

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bluSCALE4 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Regarding recommendations. I recently disabled history and recommendations and the subscribed tab has everything I’d expect. No more surprises and no more political garbage.

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portaouflop 5 days ago | parent [-]

That’s crazy, when I am logged out I only get political garbage and the most insane braunrot you can imagine. My recommendations are really good on YouTube, I find a lot of interesting stuff

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bluSCALE4 5 days ago | parent [-]

You must fight the urge to click on controversial topics. If you mentally subscribe to any fringe idea, the algo immediately feeds you echo chamber / bubble content. It's crazy.

	▲	coolcoder613 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I usually open videos of any topic I don't want in my recommendations in a private window.
	▲	rightbyte 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ye if you watch some woodworking bench videos YT spams them at you. I guess that is what PCA gives you. Lunatic videos is some distinct component too.

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izacus 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I understand that they've massively reduced the compensation creators receive from monetization.

Do you have any article about that? How much did the monetization drop for?

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the_af 5 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know the data but every YouTube author I follow is basically saying the money they get from YouTube is almost nothing compared to the effort they put into their videos. Almost all of them seem to be going for sponsored ads embedded in the video (so not automatically skippable) or Patreon.

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izacus 5 days ago | parent [-]

How big are the channels? As far as I follow, the revenue numbers creators get from Ads aren't ignorable at all.

	▲	the_af 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't check all of them... I wanna say they range from ~200 to ~500K subscribers? No idea if that's big or not. For comparison, the official Warhammer channel has ~900K subscribers, which I assume is decent. The argument I've heard repeatedly from them is that the time and effort involved in making a YouTube video that gets enough hits (which means lots of experimentation) is disproportionate compared to the meager return of investment; that for money reasons it's best to get sponsorships. (I'm not a YouTube author myself, I wouldn't know what's a decent size).