YouTube Wants You To Fail?
An episode of the Coding With Strangers podcast, hosted by Coding With Strangers, titled "YouTube Wants You To Fail?" was published on February 26, 2025 and runs 19 minutes.
February 26, 2025 ·19m · Coding With Strangers
Summary
Hey Strangers, #money #tech #programming The big picture: Google remains tight-lipped about many details surrounding YouTube's inner workings. And that's a problem, according to experts, given the platform's massive global reach and influence. But now, thanks to an innovative research approach, we're getting some of the first concrete figures from the platform.A team of researchers led by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has devised an ingenious approach to peek behind YouTube's tightly guarded curtain. They developed a program that essentially "guesses" random video URLs until it stumbles upon legitimate uploads.You see, every YouTube video is assigned a unique 11-character identifier within a standard URL format (for example: youtube.com/watch?v=v5B9_j114iA). The program, which is essentially a scraper, randomly generates these character strings and checks for matches. Essentially, it "drunk dials" the platform to see if a video exists.Zuckerman likened the process to a teenager prank-calling random numbers, as it requires billions of attempts before successfully landing on actual videos.=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.techspot.com/news/106791-youtube-numbers-uncovering-youtube-ghost-town-billions-unwatched.html======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article14:14 My Thoughts17:01 outro anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
Episode Description
Hey Strangers, #money #tech #programming The big picture: Google remains tight-lipped about many details surrounding YouTube's inner workings. And that's a problem, according to experts, given the platform's massive global reach and influence. But now, thanks to an innovative research approach, we're getting some of the first concrete figures from the platform.A team of researchers led by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has devised an ingenious approach to peek behind YouTube's tightly guarded curtain. They developed a program that essentially "guesses" random video URLs until it stumbles upon legitimate uploads.You see, every YouTube video is assigned a unique 11-character identifier within a standard URL format (for example: youtube.com/watch?v=v5B9_j114iA). The program, which is essentially a scraper, randomly generates these character strings and checks for matches. Essentially, it "drunk dials" the platform to see if a video exists.Zuckerman likened the process to a teenager prank-calling random numbers, as it requires billions of attempts before successfully landing on actual videos.=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.techspot.com/news/106791-youtube-numbers-uncovering-youtube-ghost-town-billions-unwatched.html======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article14:14 My Thoughts17:01 outro anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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