YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency | Searching YouTube for advice on CPR, heart attacks, or other critical health emergencies will now highlight authorita…::A YouTube shelf of first-aid advice for acute health emergencies from legit sources is now set up to provide advice on topics like heart attack, CPR, choking, or stroke.

  • Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    If only there could’ve been a way to know if a video is helpful and worthwhile or not at a glance…

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      10 months ago

      I mean could we sort the results by likes/dislikes? I don’t remember that being a thing but maybe I am misremembering. Like usually it was “relevancy” whatever is that or views.

      So yeah you could ignore from the result the ones with a lot of disliked but I don’t think we had other than that.

      Of course they could have implemented that as well.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Remember that Youtube works specifically on engagement, which is why everyone gets thrown down the right-wing rabbit hole automatically. They disabled the downvote because it meant less ad revenue for Google since there were videos that people weren’t watching.

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        10 months ago

        Dislikes are no longer publicly visible, unless you use an extension (which would use mostly crowdsourced or interpolated data). There are extensions that show the likes/dislikes before clicking the video, but you cannot sort by it.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, because thumbs up and down has never ever led to shitty content.

      Highlighting actual experts is a far better system.

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        10 months ago

        lol yet here you are participating in a system that you apparently think is shitty lol

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        10 months ago

        I mean you can still see dislikes with the browser extension, can you link even a single video that’s “shitty content” that doesn’t have a ton of dislikes?

        People aren’t stupid and like/dislike is a good system

        • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          So like, were you actually living in an isolated Afghanistan cave in the first year (fuck even now) of COVID?