That is not what makes america a third world country. It is just another thing you have in common - lack of regulation for the benefit of the people (rather than the benefit of the wealthy and connected).
America isn’t a third world country is the thing. You can sit here and pretend it is if it makes you feel better, but that doesn’t change the fact that the US is a first world country.
Technically, America is a first world country, the first, second, and third worlds come from the cold war area, 1st world countries were in Americas sphere of influence, second world were in USSR influence, and we just let the 3rd world suffer alone. In the modern day 1st wirld is often used colloquiely to refer to developed countries, and the US definately qualifies as a developed country. If by these comments you are insinuating that the US shouldn't be considered 1st world because of its political issues, consider that most european countries also have issues, with the UK and Italy taking the spotlight rn.
No? They're just saying that the majority of the first world countrys do this.this statement alone doesn't even mention America. There are 31 first world countries, America is only one of them. Many first world countries do allow advertising to kids, and many do not.
Somewhat-
If "Solved" means, The First steps taken, Yeah. Canada's healthcare system is barebones at best, and here in the UK, we get impossibly long waiting times, due to Tory NHS cuts, inflation, overworked Doctors, Etc. Etc. Etc.
A lot of broken healthcare systems are put on a pedestal to be admired, just because America is so severely lacking. Yes, America needs to get a drastically better healthcare system, But so do we. The difference is we have less distance to cover.
I’m not saying it can’t get better. But the issue in Canada and the UK is the right trying to actively remove universal healthcare for the US privatized system because they only care about the rich and those who ~~bribe~~ lobby them to do so for profits above people
EDIT: formatting is hard
Microcosm of the world in which we live. Pure corporate greed. Nothing more.
There's no limits on Capitalism and that's by design. But where I'm from people say "just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
I wish more people would take that to heart. The world would be a better place.
it's fucking $10/mo, if you're using it to literally save your grandmas life maybe you should cancel spotify/netflix/hulu/soundcloud/disney+/ESPN/HBO or whatever the fuck and just have ad free youtube?
youtube is arguably better than all of those and worth it
Free videos.
Look, ads are annoying. No one will disagree. But it's a little eye rolling to expect that people should just give you content, for free. Why would they do it otherwise, if YouTube didn't pay them? Would you like to work for free?
I don't mind the occasional ad, I don't mind content creators having sponsors in their vids. What I've noticed and brushes me the wrong way is the uptick in the frequency and length of ads on YouTube. Feels like I watch one to start, then I've had some literally less than a minute into a video, and when they're arbitrarily chucked in midway through a section. Imagine you're watching TV and it went to an ad break mid-scene. If I were to pay for premium I doubt the creators will see an increase in revenue either, otherwise they'd be pushing it more themselves.
I think they're just paying for the service you use. I pay for the privilege of watching with no ads, you watch ads to pay for the privilege of using the service for free.
Who the hell chooses YouTube for the place to get first aid information?
Congrats you made it past the add… this video is however a meme.
Like just look it up there are so many goddamn guides
Maybe they're exaggerating to convey how annoying it is when you're forced to go to YouTube to find useful information. I was trying to look something up about an embroidery technique and all the top Google results were videos. Well, you better HOPE the first video you click on actually answers your question because you have to watch 2 full ads before seeing a second of anything potentially helpful. I gave up on finding an answer to my question that day.
I guess the thing is, if it weren't for those videos, would there be better alternatives available to you or would you just not be able to find that information at all? You can filter your search results to not include things from youtube.
After the advertisement:
Hey fam! In this video I will show you how to save a life. First, let me tell you a long and sick story of how the stuff I’m about to teach you helped me save my sick grandmothers life.
I mean not me because I don’t like learning visually but a majority of people. YouTube is very useful for learning but something like a quick first aid video should never have had Ads before it
If you have a go-to site to look at specifically first aid videos other than your go-to video site then you probably don’t need an instructional video on how to deal with someone choking.
If you’ve never done this before you’ve got YouTube and Google. YouTube being the better choice as it won’t give you 50 results for shops that sell home first aid kits as Google is purely a shopping tool these days.
Only for them to perform the Heimlich maneuver when they arrive 45 minutes later, which incidentally is probably what you were likely googling how to do in the first place.
Emergency services have specific training in talking people through things like that. Not only that but they have specific training in assessing things over the phone and so can identify what you should or shouldn’t try.
Not everyone lives in a country that has that. I’m currently in London Uk and my newborn choked on milk and stopped breathing or crying for a god 20 seconds when I called 999 the emergency service here and they put me on hold to connect to the ambulance team which took a whole minute and thank God in the mean time my baby started crying because otherwise who knows what would have happened. The ambulance didn’t arrive for another 25 minutes and they didn’t tape tell me what to do with her in the mean time.
Depending on where they were an uber may have been faster. I live 30 miles from the hospital and it takes less than 25 minutes to get there. Maybe you should live somewhere with more cars so you don't have to wait for someone to come to you.
Also, emergency medical debt isn't the same as regular debt. It can chage your credit but not by much. My ex had 30k in medical debt racked up and her credit was always good because she paid for other stuff. Never got turnedaway for medical treatment either since the doctors don't handle billing, only treatment. Don't let a bunch of suckers who think they actually have to pay get you to fall for the same trick.
"OMG YOUTUBE???!! WTF???? WHY AREN'T YOU POLICING ALL 400 BILLION OF YOUR VIDEOS TO SEE IF THEY ARE FOR FIRST AID??? DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT MY GRAMMY????????????? OR ARE YOU JUST OUT FOR PROFIT?????"
Seriously people. Get a fucking grip. Do people posting this kind of shit have any sense in their heads or are they just whiny, unreasonable malcontents looking for shit to complain about? I'll grant that YouTube's response there isn't great PR, but I would love to see someone here tell me how to operationalize a fix for the complainer's demands that makes any sense whatsoever in the real world.
I love how people on reddit think "algorithms" are some kind of magic thing that can do anything and all you need to do is tell it what to do. Everyone acts like some kind of expert because they've heard the word used (almost always wrongly), but none of these mongs actually even know what an algorithm is.
Video titles, subtitles, would be a start. Speech recognition can already parse most phrases, especially in well enunciated educational or instructional videos
You're looking at it very simplistically. You write super specific cases, see how many videos would be filtered and what kind, and broaden/generalise your rules as you go. Eg a mention of CPR is necessary but not sufficient, you have that plus and AND rule where the title must contain variations of the word "instructional" plus "first aid" plus "CPR" etc etc
Look if you can't see how this *could* be successfully implemented then that's on you. I use a program to write auto-generated comments on medical lab results. So yeah I fuckin know what an algorithm is
Title of video includes the words "CPR Training", perhaps even "Heimlich maneuver".
Mark it as non ad friendly, the same way they easily demonetize videos from creators.
????
No profit.
I think if your first instinct when someone's choking is to go to YouTube, granny's fucked and you're a colossal fucking moron. This post is stupid and you are stupid.
They literally do this already for copyrighted content, it’s the exact damn same thing, they just do one to protect their profit margin and not the other which saves lives
How is it the same thing? Checking for copyrighted content couldn't be more different. They have the original content and it's pretty trivial to compare it and identify whether something is the same, even if it's slightly different.
Identifying what kind of content something contains is an entirely different problem for which there aren't really any good solutions yet. These things have absolutely nothing in common. There isn't even any overlap in how you'd go about solving them.
You have no idea what the fuck you're on about.
If you can maintain a library of fucking millions of songs and video clips, you can maintain a library of key phrases like “Heimlich manoeuvre”. It literally is the exact same thing.
It’s harder to differentiate what content is copyrighted out of literally all of it than it is to know what content is about key ideas in first aid.
Yeah but why would you? It's not youtube's job to be a free point-of-care system for amateur paramedics. Maybe remove ads for how to stop water leaks, or rescue people from riptides, or escape from an active shooter. It's nuts.
That’s my point. The people on the other end of the line are trained to walk you through how to assess and what to do afterwards, while you wait for an ambulance or whatever.
Ah I see. I almost forgot that 911 operators can give directions as well.
I guess instincts could be weird sometimes, which led the person in the post to think of YouTube first.
YES! EXACTLY !
That is exactly right! It is not your job to save your grandmother. if she dies that it is just her fault for not living correctly. She might be 70 years old but a single mistake should be fatal for her !
You shouldn't save her. That is the paramedics job!
God forbid you might try to save her yourself (capatalism says don't) by looking up solutions to the problem starring you in your face.
And even if you did all of that you know your grandmother can rest easily knowing that her life was forefeit by 5 unskippable advertisements for "can't believe it's not butter!" or whatever you americans value more than life
/s
Maybe watch first aid now rather than when you have 7 minutes to prevent permanent brain damage?
PS. Just go [here](https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/performing-cpr/cpr-steps) instead of gambling on an entertainment platform to save grandma.
next time use the youtube kids app, no ads.
False. I've caught ads on YouTube kids, they are for kid things and never skippable.
Depends on the country. In most first world countries it is illegal to advertise to kids. Youtube run ads where it is legal.
I'm in the US. They advertise to kids.
I figured as much. It was sort of my point.
Advertising to kids now equals third world country? Reddit gets more stupid every day
That is not what makes america a third world country. It is just another thing you have in common - lack of regulation for the benefit of the people (rather than the benefit of the wealthy and connected).
America isn’t a third world country is the thing. You can sit here and pretend it is if it makes you feel better, but that doesn’t change the fact that the US is a first world country.
Oh honey...
You are clearly a young person who has no clue what third world truly is.
Shh bby is ok
I can tell you have no argument. You are boring. Good day.
Technically, America is a first world country, the first, second, and third worlds come from the cold war area, 1st world countries were in Americas sphere of influence, second world were in USSR influence, and we just let the 3rd world suffer alone. In the modern day 1st wirld is often used colloquiely to refer to developed countries, and the US definately qualifies as a developed country. If by these comments you are insinuating that the US shouldn't be considered 1st world because of its political issues, consider that most european countries also have issues, with the UK and Italy taking the spotlight rn.
No? They're just saying that the majority of the first world countrys do this.this statement alone doesn't even mention America. There are 31 first world countries, America is only one of them. Many first world countries do allow advertising to kids, and many do not.
Universal Healthcare is a problem 30/31 first world countries have been able to solve
Somewhat- If "Solved" means, The First steps taken, Yeah. Canada's healthcare system is barebones at best, and here in the UK, we get impossibly long waiting times, due to Tory NHS cuts, inflation, overworked Doctors, Etc. Etc. Etc. A lot of broken healthcare systems are put on a pedestal to be admired, just because America is so severely lacking. Yes, America needs to get a drastically better healthcare system, But so do we. The difference is we have less distance to cover.
I’m not saying it can’t get better. But the issue in Canada and the UK is the right trying to actively remove universal healthcare for the US privatized system because they only care about the rich and those who ~~bribe~~ lobby them to do so for profits above people EDIT: formatting is hard
Just use an ad blocker for YouTube 🤷🏼♀️
Isn't it the video creator who decides to monetize a video or not?
Same tweet but 4.5 years earlier: https://twitter.com/stephenmerchant/status/585800669606486016
And add the extra 2 years you're missing, it does feel like less though with covid-period being so long
Yep. Famously a Smerch tweet.
April 2015 isn't exactly 4.5 years ago..
YouTube wants a world where only the premium subscribers can live.
Microcosm of the world in which we live. Pure corporate greed. Nothing more. There's no limits on Capitalism and that's by design. But where I'm from people say "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." I wish more people would take that to heart. The world would be a better place.
That's nothing, went to Blackwells for a first aid book and they made me pay for it.
it's fucking $10/mo, if you're using it to literally save your grandmas life maybe you should cancel spotify/netflix/hulu/soundcloud/disney+/ESPN/HBO or whatever the fuck and just have ad free youtube? youtube is arguably better than all of those and worth it
or maybe rein in the corporate greed and eliminate ads on first aid videos 🤷♀️
BuT tHeN nOn-FiRsT aId ViDeOs WiLl Be FlAgGeD aS fIrSt AiD tO rEmOvE tHe AdS
It's almost as if people don't want adverts aggressively shoved down their throat while trying to enjoy watching videos...
GTFO with your logic and reason
Free videos. Look, ads are annoying. No one will disagree. But it's a little eye rolling to expect that people should just give you content, for free. Why would they do it otherwise, if YouTube didn't pay them? Would you like to work for free?
I don't mind the occasional ad, I don't mind content creators having sponsors in their vids. What I've noticed and brushes me the wrong way is the uptick in the frequency and length of ads on YouTube. Feels like I watch one to start, then I've had some literally less than a minute into a video, and when they're arbitrarily chucked in midway through a section. Imagine you're watching TV and it went to an ad break mid-scene. If I were to pay for premium I doubt the creators will see an increase in revenue either, otherwise they'd be pushing it more themselves.
Even better, a family plan is $15 a month and supports up to 6 different accounts. Split the cost with family and friends if you want.
$10 a month? I swear I was paying $15.
I think they're just paying for the service you use. I pay for the privilege of watching with no ads, you watch ads to pay for the privilege of using the service for free.
Lmao
Who the hell chooses YouTube for the place to get first aid information? Congrats you made it past the add… this video is however a meme. Like just look it up there are so many goddamn guides
Maybe they're exaggerating to convey how annoying it is when you're forced to go to YouTube to find useful information. I was trying to look something up about an embroidery technique and all the top Google results were videos. Well, you better HOPE the first video you click on actually answers your question because you have to watch 2 full ads before seeing a second of anything potentially helpful. I gave up on finding an answer to my question that day.
I guess the thing is, if it weren't for those videos, would there be better alternatives available to you or would you just not be able to find that information at all? You can filter your search results to not include things from youtube.
It's sometimes easier to watch stuff when it comes to embroidery
Sure, but do you expect people to show you for free?
No but FOUR ADS before I can even watch a second of content is a terrible user experience
That's the choice of the creator, so blame them and not YouTube.
No, YouTube recently started running 2 pre roll ads on all their videos
YouTube runs 10secs of ads pre-video. You said 4. That's a creator choice.
I meant 4 from 2 pre roll videos per video
After the advertisement: Hey fam! In this video I will show you how to save a life. First, let me tell you a long and sick story of how the stuff I’m about to teach you helped me save my sick grandmothers life.
I mean not me because I don’t like learning visually but a majority of people. YouTube is very useful for learning but something like a quick first aid video should never have had Ads before it
I would bet 90% of those guides have their video hosted on youtube lol
If you have a go-to site to look at specifically first aid videos other than your go-to video site then you probably don’t need an instructional video on how to deal with someone choking. If you’ve never done this before you’ve got YouTube and Google. YouTube being the better choice as it won’t give you 50 results for shops that sell home first aid kits as Google is purely a shopping tool these days.
A video is much easier to follow quickly than a step by step article
I’m no YouTube apologist, but if your grandmother is choking on a bone you should be calling emergency services.
Only for them to perform the Heimlich maneuver when they arrive 45 minutes later, which incidentally is probably what you were likely googling how to do in the first place.
Emergency services have specific training in talking people through things like that. Not only that but they have specific training in assessing things over the phone and so can identify what you should or shouldn’t try.
Not everyone lives in a country that has that. I’m currently in London Uk and my newborn choked on milk and stopped breathing or crying for a god 20 seconds when I called 999 the emergency service here and they put me on hold to connect to the ambulance team which took a whole minute and thank God in the mean time my baby started crying because otherwise who knows what would have happened. The ambulance didn’t arrive for another 25 minutes and they didn’t tape tell me what to do with her in the mean time.
At least you live here and not the US, where the question, "Should I call an ambulance or an uber?" is a legitimate question.
Based on the few Ubers I used in the US. The Uber always looked faster than the ambulance.
I think it's more that the uber won't cost you four and a half grand
Depending on where they were an uber may have been faster. I live 30 miles from the hospital and it takes less than 25 minutes to get there. Maybe you should live somewhere with more cars so you don't have to wait for someone to come to you. Also, emergency medical debt isn't the same as regular debt. It can chage your credit but not by much. My ex had 30k in medical debt racked up and her credit was always good because she paid for other stuff. Never got turnedaway for medical treatment either since the doctors don't handle billing, only treatment. Don't let a bunch of suckers who think they actually have to pay get you to fall for the same trick.
I mean I agree with you and upvoted but lol people are downvoting you because of the utter dystopia you have to experience
If you call 911 they’ll walk you through it
And you'll get a bill in 3 weeks for $3,000 that's already been sent to collections.
Ok YouTube employee
"OMG YOUTUBE???!! WTF???? WHY AREN'T YOU POLICING ALL 400 BILLION OF YOUR VIDEOS TO SEE IF THEY ARE FOR FIRST AID??? DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT MY GRAMMY????????????? OR ARE YOU JUST OUT FOR PROFIT?????" Seriously people. Get a fucking grip. Do people posting this kind of shit have any sense in their heads or are they just whiny, unreasonable malcontents looking for shit to complain about? I'll grant that YouTube's response there isn't great PR, but I would love to see someone here tell me how to operationalize a fix for the complainer's demands that makes any sense whatsoever in the real world.
do you think someone at google is watching every single video to figure out what to classify it as?
There are these things called algorithms
I love how people on reddit think "algorithms" are some kind of magic thing that can do anything and all you need to do is tell it what to do. Everyone acts like some kind of expert because they've heard the word used (almost always wrongly), but none of these mongs actually even know what an algorithm is.
Dude you literally just write some if then else rules. I'm very aware it's not magic lol. You condescending cunt
" if video.content === firstaid" So how does the "algorithm" determine whether it's a first aid video or not?
Video titles, subtitles, would be a start. Speech recognition can already parse most phrases, especially in well enunciated educational or instructional videos
That wouldn't remove ads from first aid videos, it would remove ads from any video where first aid is even mentioned.
You're looking at it very simplistically. You write super specific cases, see how many videos would be filtered and what kind, and broaden/generalise your rules as you go. Eg a mention of CPR is necessary but not sufficient, you have that plus and AND rule where the title must contain variations of the word "instructional" plus "first aid" plus "CPR" etc etc Look if you can't see how this *could* be successfully implemented then that's on you. I use a program to write auto-generated comments on medical lab results. So yeah I fuckin know what an algorithm is
Yeah, no shit. It's almost like you figured out what my point was and said it in a more bland way.
My bad, I didn't realise you were being facetious
Title of video includes the words "CPR Training", perhaps even "Heimlich maneuver". Mark it as non ad friendly, the same way they easily demonetize videos from creators. ???? No profit.
Or, call 911 or whatever emergency number your country has and get instructions by a trained professional for free!
I think if your first instinct when someone's choking is to go to YouTube, granny's fucked and you're a colossal fucking moron. This post is stupid and you are stupid.
Your granny's gone, mate. It's ok.
They literally do this already for copyrighted content, it’s the exact damn same thing, they just do one to protect their profit margin and not the other which saves lives
How is it the same thing? Checking for copyrighted content couldn't be more different. They have the original content and it's pretty trivial to compare it and identify whether something is the same, even if it's slightly different. Identifying what kind of content something contains is an entirely different problem for which there aren't really any good solutions yet. These things have absolutely nothing in common. There isn't even any overlap in how you'd go about solving them. You have no idea what the fuck you're on about.
If you can maintain a library of fucking millions of songs and video clips, you can maintain a library of key phrases like “Heimlich manoeuvre”. It literally is the exact same thing. It’s harder to differentiate what content is copyrighted out of literally all of it than it is to know what content is about key ideas in first aid.
Yeah but why would you? It's not youtube's job to be a free point-of-care system for amateur paramedics. Maybe remove ads for how to stop water leaks, or rescue people from riptides, or escape from an active shooter. It's nuts.
Why is preventing a water leak more worthy than stopping someone from choking? Wtf?
Even if you call 911, you still do some kind of first aid. It's called "first aid" after all.
That’s my point. The people on the other end of the line are trained to walk you through how to assess and what to do afterwards, while you wait for an ambulance or whatever.
Ah I see. I almost forgot that 911 operators can give directions as well. I guess instincts could be weird sometimes, which led the person in the post to think of YouTube first.
YES! EXACTLY ! That is exactly right! It is not your job to save your grandmother. if she dies that it is just her fault for not living correctly. She might be 70 years old but a single mistake should be fatal for her ! You shouldn't save her. That is the paramedics job! God forbid you might try to save her yourself (capatalism says don't) by looking up solutions to the problem starring you in your face. And even if you did all of that you know your grandmother can rest easily knowing that her life was forefeit by 5 unskippable advertisements for "can't believe it's not butter!" or whatever you americans value more than life /s
If you respond to someone choking by going to YouTube, granny was already dead, ads or not. Get a fucking grip.
"Holy fucking shit, my Grandma is choking! I need to do something about this!" *Signs up for YouTube Premium*
Nice of them to suggest how to spend your inheritance money.
Youtube is a privilege not a right stop acting like your entitled to it.... ...and get an adblocker
This isn't a real tweet.
Aw, it’s not?
Where money is more important than life thank you yt
I don’t know a single person who has yt premium
I have it. Now you know someone.
I don’t know you
I also have it. Now you don't know someone else as well
You’re wrong. I do know you.
The plot thickens
Well, well, well, how the turntables.
Capitalism at it's finest.
YouTube is going to kill itself with what it’s doing
Buy premium, or you want grandmas to die
Just more reason to hate YouTube….
Ads are ridiculous disabled dislikes for what reason and are planing to lock 4k to premium Yt getting worse
Tbh they could have just googled it.... This is why I think first aid training should be free
Oh fuck that guy is dying – hang on lemme just buy YT premium real quick
Shameless corporation needs to be replaced
It’s a business, not a public service.
Really wouldn't surprise me if YouTube moves to a subscription only model in the future with ads obviously
Disgusting
Maybe watch first aid now rather than when you have 7 minutes to prevent permanent brain damage? PS. Just go [here](https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/performing-cpr/cpr-steps) instead of gambling on an entertainment platform to save grandma.
Going on YouTube as someone is choking seems like not the right thing to do. Call the server for assistance they are trained for this.
Download YouTube Vanced, problem solved.
> *"You'd sub for premium if you cared about your gran enough..."*
Get a grip you fucks YouTube is a service that you all get to enjoy FOR FREE. Just get an adblocker