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by BobCat 1453 days ago
They should also figure out how to stop channel hijacking and the shillers playing that Elon Musk crypto interview which keeps showing up in my recommendations...
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I posted a SpaceX live feed launch on my work Slack channel, pretty close to the end, and when it ended it redirected to one of those crypto scams and someone complained I posted a crypto scam on the channel.

To be fair to the person a lot of people open things in a tab and look at them later.

YouTube's default behavior when a stream ends is to redirect you to the first video (or stream) from the sidebar of suggested/related videos -- whatever that may be.

This is a pretty serious misfeature, IMO. But it is what it is.

Youtube wants to be like broadcast TV. TV is endless rather than deliberate.
Subscriber and view counts are a huge factor in whether a video gets recommended and scammers are able to easily exploit that using bots. Some simple commonsense would go far here. For one they could restrict streaming if a new account quickly gains tens of thousands of subscribers. That seems to be a common theme among the scammer accounts I've seen.
yeah but engagement and ad dollars. the scam videos are as profitable for YouTube ad they are for scammers.