Even if every single one of those .3% of the users actually decide not to click on the video because they didn't see the usual thumbnail, that's still .3% earnings -- and that won't be the case either way.
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Replying to @gigaherz @TheDemoStorm and
"We are doing a test that could improve user interaction with videos, and in the worst case, it's only .3% impact and will be over within a few days." sounds pretty reasonable to me, and youtube actually communicated about this test, instead of leaving people wondering.
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Replying to @gigaherz @TheDemoStorm and
Did they tell us somewhere other than this thread? Because telling someone that you're doing it only when you're caught doesn't equate to advance notice. And even if the impact is small, when they announce it they should allow people to opt out and not participate if they choose
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Replying to @PKMNodo @TheDemoStorm and
Oh right, that message was actually a reply... I had only ever seen it retweeted and I didn't realize it was answering a question. I retract my "at least they did say they were doing it" part.
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Considering it also hit this person's entire channel, it's a .3% loss to YouTube, but a potentially huge loss for this creator
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Replying to @Cynderstone @PKMNodo and
Nono, it didn't hit their entire channel, it hit their account, as a viewer. They are one of the .3% who were selected to SEE the automatically generated thumbnails, instead of the real ones. Their account would be perfectly fine when seen by anyone in the other 99.7%.
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Replying to @gigaherz @Cynderstone and
Don't forget that you never know how far youtube will take this, it basically shows they can fuck with stuff and obviously not say anything about it. "Give them an inch they'll take a mile" in other words if you let youtube keep doing this they'll keep changing stuff.
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Replying to @Lamebananaman69 @Cynderstone and
They *have* to keep changing stuff. As a company, it's never the right approach to say "okay this works, I'll stick to this forever". You grow stale, money stops flowing. YouTube have to keep improving their system, even if it drives some creators away.
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Except YouTube is a huge corporate entity. So far as they are concerned, if they improve the platform in the long run, and the remaining creators + the new ones that join afterward are able to provide more, then those creators were holding them back.
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