I was trying to give pointers to people in comments but it seems whenever I wrote uBlock Origin, "u B lock", SponsorBlock or "S p onSor Block" (without quotes) the comment would vanish within first minute.

Is this happening only to me/on this one specific video (in Czech, don't want to link because I don't agree with the points they said, though it was video about the adblock blocking of YT)?

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 60 points 2 years ago

Probably. I mean I would block it if I were them lol

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They definitely block an absolute fuck ton of references. I had comments removed for simply saying the word Github.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had the word aliexpress get me a warning for "spam & scams", and another very short comment got me a temporary ban. I have no idea why, maybe because it looked like fake engagement? I mentioned the phrase "youtube channel". So strange.

I feel like I shouldn't keep putting my energy onto that platform and am looking for a good peertube instance to start uploading to.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 5 points 2 years ago

I think Google and Youtube are straight fucking buttcheeks. That's all there is to it. I also hope that an alternative will arrive.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're not aware YouTube has heavy comment filters which use NLP in a heavy handed way to remove "negative" comments.

YouTube comments are genuinely worth nothing anymore because they're cherry picked by software

[–] sviper@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Also the creator can remove the comments he wants.

[–] stormtrooper@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t comment on yt at all so I haven’t tried but that’s hilarious and frustrating. Every browser I run into I install ublock. Sometimes I install it on my friends’ browsers if they let me.

[–] DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hats off to a wingman like yourself.

A compilation of people using uBlock for the first time would be hilarious

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 20 points 2 years ago

Would be surprised if they are not blocking those terms. Surprised pro-ad blocking videos stay up long enough to get any comments.

[–] Automated_Handprint@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

YouTubers can block specific words from comments.

Everyone here started to blame YouTube for this, ignoring that you said it was only on one video. Just because YouTube is getting shitty doesn't mean that we should change the facts.

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Even if you get passed their filter probably a few knobs gonna report your comment too

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've mentioned SponsorBlock and it stayed up.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

there is some evidence of shadowbanning, where your comment isnt removed and you can still see it, but it is hidden from others.

[–] astramist@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah.

The video author can enable a setting to analyze the comments. YouTube itself flags comments that it deems inappropriate. The author only chooses which videos to include this tweak and the level of strictness.

It is enabled by default.

Comments that may be spam, self-promotion, gibberish, and otherwise potentially inappropriate will automatically be held for review in YouTube Studio and will only be published if you approve them. If you want a higher level of protection for your channel, increasing strictness will increase the number of comments held for review.

[–] Blueneonz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a problem with all types of comments being flagged as spam and other things while others are not. Wouldn't doubt this is actual erasure on YouTube's part. Could replace some letters with emoji letters. Another is to write, copy and paste from a website that transforms the words into "aesthetic" fonts, many spam bots do this to keep their comments up.