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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 years ago by misk@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] shadesdk@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

While that would be great, in reality because of YouTube’s recommendations, the ones most likely to watch this crap are the ones already drinking the kool-aid and thus upvoting.

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[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

How time passes. This was not the case when down-votes were there. It used to be easy to identify when videos were full of shit, even with lots of views.

This might help others. It's crowd-sourced and uses averages, but for what it "feels" like, it seems pretty accurate:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/

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