Could someone make an external index and review site for yt videos?
yt doing this is essentially yt putting their thumb on the scale, telling you that their product is good, and hiding anyone saying it's not.
Generally, you must always have an outside party to review and judge a thing, not the thing itself.
Probably yt would try every trademark and copyright legal attack in the book to take down any such site, but it seems obvious that in common sense terms, the only possible way to have reviews of yt videos is for them to be provided by anyone other than any Alphabet property.
> Could someone make an external index and review site for yt videos?
Yes, but gaining any sort of widespread traction would be really hard. The vast majority of YT viewers won’t have your chrome extension or whatever installed and without a critical mass of ratings on the long tail of low-view videos, people will lose interest fast.
Maybe if you seeded it with scraped vote counts now people would use it.
yt doing this is essentially yt putting their thumb on the scale, telling you that their product is good, and hiding anyone saying it's not.
Generally, you must always have an outside party to review and judge a thing, not the thing itself.
Probably yt would try every trademark and copyright legal attack in the book to take down any such site, but it seems obvious that in common sense terms, the only possible way to have reviews of yt videos is for them to be provided by anyone other than any Alphabet property.