logoalt Hacker News

paulpauperlast Thursday at 9:46 PM8 repliesview on HN

of course, no space x event is complete without the scam fake streams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1VbZoYSyzA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMG8BbUjwRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-uQNSxqQHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYuUj777a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsGPQnAP-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAC4JzHqRk4


Replies

sebzim4500last Thursday at 9:47 PM

It is incredibly to me that Google doesn't seem to give a shit about this. It would be so easy to fix.

show 5 replies
echoanglelast Thursday at 10:40 PM

Where do they get channels with half a million subs? Are those hacked?

s1artibartfastlast Thursday at 10:19 PM

to be clear, it seems like the feed on some of these are scraped from official ones, but include links to crypto "giveaway" scams.

ge96last Thursday at 9:55 PM

it's funny how good the algorithm is to recommend this to you so you (I) can report it

sneaklast Thursday at 10:50 PM

All of the downsides of a heavily censored and politically editorialized platform, with none of the anti-fraud upsides.

barbazoolast Thursday at 10:19 PM

Are these YT channels just mirroring the official one?

show 3 replies
mmaunderlast Thursday at 9:48 PM

That’s hilarious

kklisuralast Thursday at 11:23 PM

I blame SpaceX for this as they do not have official youtube stream. This is just amateurish.

show 1 reply