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This thumbnail does not inspire confidence in the quality of the content. It is a pure clickbait title screen.

So is just about every video created over the last few years. This is the new norm and can no longer be used to judge a bit of content. For ~~better or~~ worst.

The video itself is a good overview of what data brokers are and what they collect on you with some ways to help mitigate this. Honestly not very big news for anyone that is already into data privacy, but it will be very eye opening for anyone that is not already aware of what they collect.

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hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So is just about every video created over the last few years. This is the new norm and can no longer be used to judge a bit of content. For better or worst.

Completely agreed, and is why I asked. The vast majority of youtube videos with these clickbait title screens (let’s be honest, it’s basically all of them) tend to not be worth watching, to me.

I appreciate your response, specifically, “Honestly not very big news for anyone that is already into data privacy”. I’m deep into data privacy as I deal with it every day in my line of work, so I was curious if this was a deep dive or high level “for noobs”.

Hopefully others see value in this video! But it sounds like it isn’t for me.

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CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I remember hearing someone talk about how you have to have those shitty kinds of thumbnails to get any decent visibility on YouTube. I’m not sure exactly how it works or if there’s any truth to it though.

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- nous@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have heard multiple different creators say a similar thing - they don’t want to but it works and not doing it hurts the views they get. And there are lots of creators out there basically doing A/B testing on them to see what things preform better - and this is what we are left with.
  
  It is sad that meaningful titles at least have gone as it makes it much harder to actually search for things. Thumbnails I care less about.
  
  I’m not sure exactly how it works
  
  Sadly I think it works because people click on them. Or are more likely to. Most people seem to just be more likely to click on the flashy simple click baity titles and thumbnails. Those that don’t, I suspect, are in the small minority. Though I think at least some of this is due to them pushing algorithmic content over anything else so hard.
  
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