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one aspect which could be used is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act - by 1 st January 2024 a new EU directive will be in force. Of cause - YouTube might wait and in order to comply develop awful closed solution, but one approach to fight case in court might be : we released API and each youtuber could use (given existence of open source solutions). So while YouTube is not interested in any way to make any meaningful steps (only making show of their efforts), they might be interested to avoid huge fines with least efforts. and API for filtering all new comments (and mailing responses only after filtering is finished) is easiest way to them. The API is almost here it just needs few tweaks to be really useful. At the same time - it needs to be widely used and effective before 1 Jan 2024, so YouTube is better to harry up to have least efforts (and making least harm to users) to comply |
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ahh I was wrong in details. It turns out there is channel comments API
so looks like it is possible to start experiment with Real Time mode. now the only question how to force to return modified comments and also new subcomments, that is a million dollars question :) |
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btw - there is even more subtle problem with the problem I mentioned above: scam accounts create seemingly neutral accounts - example as of time of this comment there is so called Abdul Ibrahim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsD87v8F914&lc=Ugz9756v8J1MnRN3DuN4AaABAg.9dnUc2gJ-FB9dnWothhMOA I think in few hours it will turn into something like 'telegram me real Marques Brownlee' now - reporting neutral non scamming accounts is considered as spam itself. So reporting user might be banned from youtube. |
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Situation with scam spamming becomes really dire,
even running YTSpammerPurge once every hour does not help - as scammers spam multiple videos and it's not possible to catch them in time. I clean one video, then hundreds of scam comments appear in old (but popular) video.
there is a question - if that could be fixed, given that even such good tool as YTSpammerPurge is not quite adequate to the task.
Apparently YouTube Studio can access all new comments.
There are functions, which is not documented in API and allow that behavior.
Some of functions were traced by project
https://github.com/adasq/youtube-studio
but lacks functions requesting new comments.
What gives knowing new comments? It allows to run YTSpammerPurge-realtime (hypotetical follow up to YTSpammerPurge) in infinite loop and request new comments, scan them on arrival and perform appropriate actions.
That way - after initial clean up of videos and having monitoring for all new comments on channel - the channel will be free of spammers.
Due to lack of official API for new comments across channel
What can be done?
Of cause, it is possible to make similar hacking as in mentioned project and find functions. But it's not a solid solution.
Better yet ask YouTube release the API.
There is one corner case though, which I already observed:
Some user with non offending picture and bland name posts usual scam finger up.
Then after posting multiple spam comments (scammer script might post infrequently - say once in 5 minutes (also already observed)- to overcome non detection of repetition of scam comments in each new batch it's possible to keep comments cache though)
changes both profile picture and channel name - so the post becomes legit scam comment with offer of prize and finger where to find - but it's not detected.
So I'd also request such API so that it returns not only new comments, but all comments which changed on channel after last request.
So will we start petition? What are thoughts?
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