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Removing YouTube scam comments #cybersecurity #youtube

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:55:00 +0000

If you use YouTube, It's not easy to miss a scammer in the comments in the videos of channels with high subscriber count.

The typical scam is to masquerade as the channel owner and enticing the unsuspecting users to engage with them for a prize to siphon money or steal their identity.

Several YouTubers have resorted to pin a comment on their videos mentioning about the scam and some have even gone to the lengths of engaging with the scammers themselves to educate their audience.

Given the scale of the scam and risk of legal issues/reputation loss to the YouTuber there seems to be a need-gap to address the YouTube comments scam as YouTube seems have waved their hands off this.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Share YouTube subscribed channel list #youtube #sharing

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:47:00 +0000

Recently I got bored of the content from my subscribed channels on the YouTube and I asked my friends to share their subscription list only to find out that there's no such option to share YouTube subscription list.

It seems earlier there used to be an export option and third party service which allowed importing subscription list into another Google account, but not anymore.

There are others asking for the same in the YouTube community forum without any solutions. I think a tool which allows easy sharing and exporting of YouTube subscription list could be appreciated by these people and me!

5 points posted by Devin

Searching YouTube videos with transcript #youtube #transcript

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:36:00 +0000

When I have to search something within a YouTube video, I 'Open transcript' from the menu and search with 'Control + F' for the term I'm looking for and then click the same if found in the transcript for skipping to that part in the video.

I searched for an add-on which can do that automatically and found this - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keyword-search-in-youtube/dpadfnjbfalopginhcmmmccpfdaofjco?hl=en; but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

After reading from the comments, it seems that there could be a need gap for such a tool.

3 points posted by Gibbs

Selectively disable YouTube live chat #youtube #chat

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:17:00 +0000

YouTube live chat on news channels are a cesspool, I'm afraid even to look at them and so the first thing I do when I visit a news channel is scroll down and click on 'HIDE CHAT'. Google doesn't allow to make this setting permanent and so I have to do this every single time.

It would be great to have a way to disable YouTube live chat selectively on different channels permanently.

1 points posted by Richard_Dune