ASUS Scammed Us (Gamers Nexus) (www.youtube.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 11 May 2024 07:24
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furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 May 2024 07:50 collapse

why would somebody downvote this?

mogoh@lemmy.ml on 11 May 2024 09:25 next collapse

While Gamers Nexus does some decent work, he suffers from what a lot of youtubers suffer: clickbait titles, sponsored segments, unnecessary long videos, etc.

Some find this so annoying, that they downvote this kind of content.

Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us. I am not saying its irrelevant, but there are bigger news.

dracs@programming.dev on 11 May 2024 10:53 next collapse

I believe Steve has said that he hates the title/thumbnails too. But Google’s algorithms heavily incentives them, so he reluctantly uses them while maintaining the good quality content.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 12 May 2024 04:24 collapse

Unfortunately this is just the state of YouTube. If you don’t do clickbait, you’re just irrelevant. And YouTube does nothing to curb this.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 May 2024 12:08 next collapse

Dearrow solves this. I can’t use YouTube anymore without it

neo@feddit.de on 11 May 2024 12:23 next collapse

Never heard of it, but I’ll check it out. Thanks!

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 11 May 2024 13:36 collapse

Yeah, I use Clickbait Remover, Sponsorblock, Improve Youtube (or ImprovedTube), Distraction-Free Youtube, Return Youtube Dislike, and of course, Ublock Origin, to make Youtube work well for me. That’s 6 extensions, 5 of which are about Youtube only. 5/11 of my extensions are for Youtube Only.

For anyone curious, the others are enhanced-264-ify, User Agent Switcher, Dark Reader, Brave Search and Tabliss.

DacoTaco@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 12:16 next collapse

I can understand with what youre saying, and to each their own tastes. However, id like to point out that asus tried to get them to pay 200$ for something that wasnt broken is something that is relevant to us as consumers. Specially since they started the investigation after a lot of people started mailing GN about their issues and… questionable practices

UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 16:03 next collapse

Emphasis on him suffering. The algorithm is incentivizing YouTubers to adhere to this meta. GN isn’t trying to mislead us, it’s just how the job is structured.

Analog@lemmy.ml on 12 May 2024 00:48 next collapse

Didn’t watch, did you?

Yes, they reported the first hand experience because they can vouch for it completely. But they also have hundreds of people who contacted them - often with evidence - about Asus being dishonest and deceitful.

In one of those people. I’m glad the word is spreading. Asus RMA really is that bad, too the degree the company just needs to die.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 12 May 2024 04:22 collapse

Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us.

If you actually watch the video, it documents how Asus ALSO scammed pretty much every other one of their customers who ever submit an RMA by making up lies about damaged components, charging to fix things that aren’t broken, then giving you just a few days to respond before they threaten to charge you shipping to send it back to you disassembled.

Default_Defect@midwest.social on 11 May 2024 09:50 next collapse

butthurt LTT fans

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 11 May 2024 15:34 collapse

Where’s the article?

adespoton@lemmy.ca on 11 May 2024 15:55 next collapse

One day soon, AI will be cheap enough and good enough that people will produce YouTube videos and AI will summarize the videos into well written, succinct articles with appropriate images and cited sources.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 11 May 2024 18:24 collapse

AI will just throw in hallucinations and misinformation. This is not a replacement to a human writing an article

Voyajer@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 16:44 collapse

The videos get tuned into articles on gamersnexus.net after the fact, so check there in a few days.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 11 May 2024 18:24 collapse

Thanks, but I’m saying that if they posted a link to an actual article instead of just a video, they maybe wouldn’t have been down voted

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 11 May 2024 19:10 collapse

What’s wrong with videos

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 12 May 2024 05:01 collapse

Its not an article. Many people are here to read.