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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.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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ALRIGHT YOUTUBERS its time for CPR step 1:

Don't waste any time in ensuring the victim's airway is not obstructed...

[–] Guest_User 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Step 2: compressions. Don't forget to push that like button like the chest of the victim!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Step 3: Breath into the mouth, just like everyone breathing life into that comment section!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also exactly what I would expect from a YouTube video with 8 billion views on this topic at this point, bravo!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] SomeGuy69 4 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile the video shows animation made by AI, looking like the Will Smith eating spaghetti ones.

[–] hakunawazo 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Before we really begin here are the 10 most dangerous anti-patterns in first aid. Number 3 will shock you with a defibrillator.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Fucking gold, perfect.

[–] J12 17 points 10 months ago

Make sure you like and subscribe if you saved a life today.

[–] wabafee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You forgot about a background about CPR, it's uses then proceed a whole essay about its history, then eventually reaching to the main point but explained in the most vague way possible. It's also probably narrated by an AI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Hey guys! It's me EverydayCPRTips back again with an exciting video on how to perform life saving CPR. Before we get started, don't forget to compress that like button and breathe some love into that bell so you can be notified anytime I release a new video. Leave a comment below if you'd like to see any other life saving techniques!

[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago (10 children)

If only there could’ve been a way to know if a video is helpful and worthwhile or not at a glance…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean could we sort the results by likes/dislikes? I don't remember that being a thing but maybe I am misremembering. Like usually it was "relevancy" whatever is that or views.

So yeah you could ignore from the result the ones with a lot of disliked but I don't think we had other than that.

Of course they could have implemented that as well.

[–] stoly 2 points 10 months ago

Remember that Youtube works specifically on engagement, which is why everyone gets thrown down the right-wing rabbit hole automatically. They disabled the downvote because it meant less ad revenue for Google since there were videos that people weren't watching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dislikes are no longer publicly visible, unless you use an extension (which would use mostly crowdsourced or interpolated data). There are extensions that show the likes/dislikes before clicking the video, but you cannot sort by it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I know I meant when they were visible. That I don't think sorting by it was a thing.

[–] PastyWaterSnake 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A long time ago when they used the 1-5 star system, I think it was

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah the star system I forgot about that.

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[–] Voyajer 61 points 10 months ago (4 children)

But will it still play an ad before the video?

[–] bbkpr 64 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • 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
[–] Wogi 18 points 10 months ago

SMASH LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE AND HIT THE BELL

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better install Sponsorblock

[–] Matriks404 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

And if you're on Firefox, will it still add that forced 5-second delay while loading the page?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Imagine having an adblocker, and still paying for premium for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which you can watch after 5 ads /s

[–] Candybar121 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's kind of funny how the enshittification of YouTube (and Google searches) is so bad, and so widely recognized, that YouTube giving the results you asked for—IF you're having a medical emergency—is considered newsworthy.

[–] CaptPretentious 8 points 10 months ago

Also consider how long YouTube has been around and under the control of Google. And this is just happening. Why wasn't this done 10 years ago...

[–] Landmammals 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] ReaderTunesOctopus 6 points 10 months ago

Is there any better place for hospital/coffin ads?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

“ tilt the head, to ensure the air way is open. Before we get to compressions, it's a good time to remind you that this CPR video is sponsored by RAID: shadow legends...“

[–] FlavoredButtHair 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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 20 points 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 10 months ago
[–] stoly 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] WheelcharArtist 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing 911 could tell you on the phone and would be faster...

[–] JustUseMint 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Visual video reference. 911 could also tell me how to change my oil but a video is a lot easier

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Baby steps towards a return of curated truthful content? Nah, just CYA so they don't get sued.

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