YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency
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If there’s an emergency, you should still call 911 first.

YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency | Searching YouTube for advice on CPR, heart attacks, or other critical health emergencies will now highlight authorita…::A YouTube shelf of first-aid advice for acute health emergencies from legit sources is now set up to provide advice on topics like heart attack, CPR, choking, or stroke.

    • bbkpr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      1 year ago
      • 2 unskippable pre rolls that advertise drugs to treat the causes of the emergency condition
      • 5 minute long explanation of the creator’s life story
      • 1 minute long subscription beg
      • 2 extended sponsor breaks with awkward segues
      • first 30 seconds of content
      • patient is dead
        • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          As a person with YouTube Premium I am angered that I still need to install 3rd party extension to block this shit. These should be skipped automatically, since content creators get more money from Premium viewers anyway.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        Put yourself in the dark mind of an unethical marketer:

        “Sure, the Ford F-150 may be pricey, but you may be coming into an inheritance soon. Your loved one would want you to have the best. Come down to your local Ford dealer and check out the new F-150 Lariat.”

    • XTornado@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yeah one of those 30 minutes ads there used to be (not sure any more I have premium & ad block).

        • XTornado@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Music. App wise and all that I prefer Spotify but YouTube Music has everything, officially and not officially by somebody uploaded a video, plus you can upload your own mp3 files if something is missing.

          Also in the beginning of the subscription I had a work provided iPhone so it was nice to not see ads there.

        • other_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t have premium anymore, but back when I did, I got it to better support the channels I watched since I believe they got more revenue from the views of subscribers than people watching the ads.

  • FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how I feel about the authorities being alerted. What if someone is kinda bored and is looking for videos for educational use.

    Edit: ok I read the headline wrong. Oops

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I may be reading it wrong but this is just not what the article says.

      By “highlight authoritative sources” they mean display credible videos made by the authorities at the very top of the search results.

      And within the article you’ll read that one of the first instructions given in said videos is to call an emergency service, and not that youtube is going to do it for you

    • Madis@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Where does it say that? The article only mentions authoritative videos, which means they have been made or approved by authorities, not that watching the videos will interact with them in any way.

  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Guess it’s better than making me sit through an ad first, but is this really that big of news otherwise?