> This might not be a popular opinion, but I feel like YouTube is doing their best with a really hard problem.
Of their own making. It's solvable. You throw humans at it.
If Google can't deal with this then they shouldn't be allowed to collect money by running ads. Problem solved.
And other sites will spring up that might actually be willing to deal with the problem correctly because now YouTube isn't a monopoly anymore.
Google (and others) are going to continue to be shit until we hit them with anti-trust actions and big fines. Until then, this is all just a cost of doing business and they will laugh all the way to the bank.
The main innovation google has seemed to make is to create products that scale with nearly zero customer service overhead. They have half-assed algorithms that mostly do something approximating a thing that might sorta be kind of near almost the right thing. With no recourse. Their success is that they've gotten people to swallow this state of affairs because they're almost the only game in town.
I favor splitting up tech companies (see my comment above).
The one counter-argument I do find interesting, however, is that YouTube BECAUSE of their monopoly status is able to throw far more resources into this than others sites do. We don't notice it on those other sites because (a) far fewer people are making a living there, and (b) they aren't targeted the way YouTube is targeted.
But that nevertheless, that monopoly is the only reason they are able to do as good a job as they do. And even if there was tons of competition and you lowered the stakes of getting booted, starting at zero followers on another site isn't exactly lowering the stakes to a point where it doesn't matter that you got the boot.
I still say split up tech companies. That said, so many industries have monopoly issues and rather than getting 90% of the attention tech companies should probably get more like 10%.
Of their own making. It's solvable. You throw humans at it.
If Google can't deal with this then they shouldn't be allowed to collect money by running ads. Problem solved.
And other sites will spring up that might actually be willing to deal with the problem correctly because now YouTube isn't a monopoly anymore.
Google (and others) are going to continue to be shit until we hit them with anti-trust actions and big fines. Until then, this is all just a cost of doing business and they will laugh all the way to the bank.