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youtube has a problem spam from crypto scans to health

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supplements to free robux it just keeps getting worse with each passing day and

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google clearly has no idea how to fix it all of that changes now the community

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restored the dislike counter and the community is coming to the rescue once

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again led by the unlikeliest of heroes

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offer code Linus at the link down below

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youtube spam takes many forms but there are some patterns with most of them

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promoting crypto investment alt health products or perhaps most infamously paid

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live campsites which theoretically should make them pretty easy to block

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so why doesn't youtube bother the truth is they do and poking around

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in our desktop dashboard it appears to be working pretty well

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just about everything that is obviously spam is filtered out and very few false

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positives get caught up unless they're violating our blocked words list

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but there's an inconsistency here that i just can't wrap my head around

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on mobile there is perfectly reasonable stuff

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that's getting held for review and i just have no idea why and it's actually

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led to some really confusing situations with fellow creators like this incident

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where the return youtube dislike extension author's post wasn't showing

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up even in our held comments list

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we've also seen unhappy viewers over the years who have accused us of censoring

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them in the comments when we're totally not we just never saw them this

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unreliability combined with the lack of a dislike counter on comments means that

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as the bots have improved our markers to identify them and root them out have

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gotten worse thanks youtube and here's one thing we

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need to get out of the way guys don't mock the people who fall for these scams

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because shaming people only empowers the scammers more so if youtube's not going

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to address this what we need is consistent filtering with a way for

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creators to keep on top of it or real people are going to get hurt

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now it's time to meet our hero what if i told you that you can actually convert a

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dvd to a blu-ray disc take your big stack of cds and get a blue marker of

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some kind theojo used to run the tech tips equivalent of how to basic and

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those videos instructing people to run their coax cable through a cd for free

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cable tv or tape a battery to their Ethernet cable to triple their internet

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speed are still up if you want to go back and

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watch them but mr joe seeing how many people were

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genuinely upset when they wasted their time trying to follow his guides

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realized that he had a power and what he really wanted to do was use

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that power for good so for years now he's actually been focused on uploading

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real tech tips and one of his best to date is an open source app that he

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created that will scan and remove spam comments from a youtube video or even an

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entire youtube channel how does it work it's dead simple in fact

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so dead simple that it is shocking that youtube hasn't bothered to

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implement it yet in its original most basic form you would choose what you

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want to scan enter the channel id of the spammer and

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boom you get a readout of the comments that are about to be deleted

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just in case and with another keystroke you wipe your videos clean of that

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spammer but mr joe didn't stop there he recently released an update with an auto

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smart mode that recognizes and selects comments based on some secret sauce that

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waits how spammy a message is based on the username comment text and some other

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techniques like how many times that comment has been repeated in fact when

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you run the script it'll show you how many of each sample was found by each

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spammer you can then delete the messages and ban the accounts all at once now the

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exact strings and patterns that the script searches for are obfuscated this

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is to prevent spammers from easily developing a way around it so they're

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not something that you can tune and tweak on your own but if all else fails

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you can always do it manually as before there are options to scan user names

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comment text or both for criteria of your choosing so if your comment section

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was getting rated by real users for example you could select and remove the

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offending comments with theo joe's tool then there's filter modes which filter

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special non-ascii characters from user names that are often used to impersonate

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content creators this is one that really blows me away that youtube hasn't done

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yet as well as nuke mode what this one

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does is make it so that only numbers letters and spaces are allowed in

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usernames now that's probably going to be a last resort for most people seeing

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as emoji are popular and languages other than english exist but it is called nuke

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mode and it's colored all red for a reason i like how the little table flip

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kimoji uses characters that would actually be filtered out by this option

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it's a nice touch in theojo's experience the false positive rate though for the

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smart auto mode is roughly zero which is why it's the default mode and the one

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that i'm going to use right now okay youtube spammer purge 2.8.0 here we

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go boys currently logged in user Linus

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tech tips channel id continues this user yes this is all configurable by the way

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all you got to do is go in and say hey i don't want to confirm which user i am

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every time little things like that scan recent videos for a channel

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scanning your own channel just hit enter enter the number of most recent well

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let's do two two three two total number of comments to scan 2980.

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this mode is a spammer's worst nightmare now theo joe did actually share with us

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the logic that it uses and it's pretty smart actually i i have very high hopes

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for this oh there they are okay uh spam

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comments ready to display also save a log file yes please wow oh boy

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oh we got some good ones here ladies and gentlemen love me

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says only for fans 18 years old love me

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dot uno stormy i know lots of people

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real people who post that on my videos this should be self-explanatory do not

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go to any of these domains here like no not recommended this is one that drives

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me crazy when the spammers wanna

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something whatever these other characters are when they just copy uh uh

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top up voted comment it makes it actually kind of hard to tell sometimes

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mw posted this youtube link 27 times how

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do you want to handle the matched comments above to exclude certain

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authors type exclude followed by a list of all the numbers in the sample list oh

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well that's easy to delete all of them type delete exactly see you later also

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ban the spammers yes now this is interesting it's checking to make sure

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the comments are gone which is an optional step to save time and API quota

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we'll talk about that a bit more later program complete press enter to

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exit that is so cool which is a lot more than

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i can say for youtube's own mobile filters like i'm stoked but Linus what

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does this have to do with me we could use this tool to seriously cut down on

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comment spam on youtube site wide and i

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don't mean we as in content creators though content creators should get

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involved i'm talking about you and me or like right now you can download this app

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and after a little bit of setup scan any video you want on youtube now you

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obviously can't delete comments from someone else's channel but you can mass

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report them so if enough of these comments get reported by enough people

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they should be removed and they should give youtube's algorithm some clues as

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to how to identify and delete them automatically the idea is that if enough

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community members pitch in they can literally clean up the comment sections

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of their favorite creators with nothing but their keyboard

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and an ice cold beverage in an LTT water bottle from ltteststore.com

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so then here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna set up this script and by i mean

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Anthony hey thanks Anthony i'm gonna set up the script to run on a schedule as

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often as we can get away with now by default youtube limits each user to 10

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000 API requests per day that's

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not that much in the grand scheme of things but mr joe actually thought of this we

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can take a page from the spammer's book and create an army of dummy accounts

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that we then grant moderator status to they can't outright delete comments but

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they can hold them for review if we run up against our own API limit this should

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help keep our comments section pretty clean that is at least for the first few

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days after a video is released making it this easy not to mention open source

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means that content creators across the youtube spectrum can spend less time

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pulling weeds while being more confident that they're keeping their audience safe

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it truly is a win-win and yet another

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example of the community coming to the rescue when youtube couldn't or

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wouldn't honestly i'm kind of leaning towards wouldn't because while i admire

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theojo's gumption here enough to give him this

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nft of a certificate of awesomeness here you go he's a self-admitted novice

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at this just one dude who wrote a simple

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script that happens to be more effective than google's filtering to be clear it's

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not perfect it's not going to prevent spam that is at least until it trains

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youtube's own filters and it is limited to those 10 000 requests per day

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but it could make spam take more effort which could reduce the amount of spam

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that's produced the only real reason i can think of that

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youtube wouldn't do this themselves is that it's computationally expensive but

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we can obviously run it on a desktop pc with no issues and our servers seem no

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worse for the wear so

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i don't know what to say other than that youtube either can't or won't and

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only they can say which one it is speaking of servers by the way get

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subscribed because we've got some data recovery to do on one of our servers and

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it's going to be a bit of a nail biter for now we'll have both the github page

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for this project and dojo's walkthrough on how to set it up linked for you guys

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go check out our video on restoring youtube's dislike button for another

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case where the community came to the rescue it's a little less straightforward than this one but i'm

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doing my part anyway