by vincvinc on 2/27/23, 1:46 PM with 122 comments
by LinuxBender on 2/27/23, 5:29 PM
I would encourage everyone to get CPR certified as it can save lives in your home, with your friends and at work. Especially those with children should get and remain CPR certified. Also consider buying an AED [1] for your home and encourage your workplace to install AED's on each floor and get at least 10% of the staff CPR certified. AED's are super easy to use and most models will literally talk you through how to use them. There are usually discounts for training larger numbers of people and the trainers will come on-site with everything they need. The safety management teams should also find out if having {n} percent of people CPR certified will lower their corporate insurance.
Some CPR training companies can also do advanced CPR training including one or two days of on-site advanced didactic training. The knowledge provided by these courses can save lives especially when emergency services are delayed or otherwise busy with others and this knowledge can be used anywhere.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillat...
by dihydro on 2/27/23, 5:00 PM
This is utter BS, because we know they have the tools to boost or suppress individual channels, so YT needs to vet existing channels, and flag them as ad free or important for search. A channel and video that comes to mind is the Red Cross' CPR instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eRwgM2Pa4o
by siva7 on 2/27/23, 5:01 PM
by encoderer on 2/27/23, 4:59 PM
by jrochkind1 on 2/27/23, 5:49 PM
What if it's not wrong exactly, it's just really bad instruction, it's confusing and takes too long. Maybe it's accidentally confusing or misleading. Maybe it's _old_ and best practices for CPR have changed in some way since it was created.
Is YouTube liable for allowing such a thing? I mean, legally we know that _currently_ there are probably a variety of reasons they aren't, and it's anyway a different question _legally_ than of putting ads before a (presumably high-quality?) CPR instructional video.
But ethically? I think this example shows... it's kind of crazy to hold YouTube responsible for making sure someone succesfully gets access to an instructional video on CPR in the moment of actually needing CPR, _and_ that eliminating ads before CPR instructional videos would actually just be _part_ of that if we did consider them responsible. They'd also have to make sure that someone searching actually found a correct and high-quality best practices instructional video, right? Which also seems unreasonable. I think it's unreasonable to expect that YouTube should provide emergency material in the urgent moment of need, that's not what YouTube does.
by foxyv on 2/27/23, 3:18 PM
Seriously though, call emergency services and they will walk you through CPR while sending help. YouTube is not an emergency service.
by trvz on 2/27/23, 4:57 PM
by notatoad on 2/27/23, 5:17 PM
pornhub also didn't help me learn how to perform CPR. should we be outraged about that too?
by tzs on 2/27/23, 10:30 PM
Many of these will be unsuited for emergency use. For example the Red Cross CPR video someone else linked to takes almost two minutes to actually get to doing CPR. That's longer than the sum of the lengths of the video in the article and the ads.
It might be a good idea to have some videos specifically aimed at people who need to learn right away to deal with a present emergency (for a variety of things, not just CPR).
Searches for "emergency" or similar should not include those videos in the general results but instead should have a notice at the top of the results saying "If you are dealing with an emergency right now click here" which would take you to a page where you can click on what kind of emergency you are dealing with and it gives a curated list of videos, along with text instructions.
by sublinear on 2/27/23, 5:10 PM
Definitely still worth attempting, but my point is that complaining about the ads on youtube for this use case is silly.
by kristiandupont on 2/27/23, 5:34 PM
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on 2/27/23, 5:17 PM
by smm11 on 2/27/23, 5:31 PM
by lcuff on 2/27/23, 6:20 PM
by renewiltord on 2/27/23, 5:12 PM
To anyone reading this: do not fear, I believe your life is worth more than $10/month even if others do not.
by falcolas on 2/27/23, 4:54 PM
https://www.tiktok.com/@thesleepyparamedic/video/71845069597...
by ihateyouall123 on 2/27/23, 5:39 PM
by Ekaros on 2/27/23, 5:54 PM
by tpoacher on 3/1/23, 11:27 PM
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by scop on 2/27/23, 5:07 PM
by clouddrover on 2/27/23, 2:05 PM
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by PortleyFool on 2/27/23, 5:19 PM
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by pipeline_peak on 2/27/23, 5:00 PM
The video would have to be reviewed before receiving said ranking.
I couldn't imagine a lot of uploaders would abuse this as they wouldn't get paid.
Of course the question is, what's in it for Google? You've probably noticed when you search a disease, it provides a nice result with graphics and dialogs. Although I don't know if they'd be interesting in preserving that image over to Youtube, as that place is a cesspool for content creation, whatever that means...