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YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How time passes. This was not the case when down-votes were there. It used to be easy to identify when videos were full of shit, even with lots of views.

This might help others. It's crowd-sourced and uses averages, but for what it "feels" like, it seems pretty accurate:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/