Remove YouTube Scammers

Chrome Extension to remove scammers from YouTube comments

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Chrome Extension to remove scammers from YouTube comments

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This Chrome Extension removes all the comments inside of YouTube where they are trying to scam people by impersonating the YouTube Channel author.

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CodeScraper

This is a good idea... I hate those comments. We would love to promote this on ExtensionList.io. Shoot me a message?

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

Thank you Bryan!

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

@iambryansanders pivoted to killspam.app

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

Thank you all for your upvotes and comments. After discussing with a bunch of YouTubers and moderators for YT channels, it seems a product that connects straight into your YouTube Channel account and automatically removes the content is a much better solution. Specifically 3x YTs with over 100K subscribers have directly asked for this product from me. How much should I charge? How much is it worth? I guess I'll be able to answer these questions once users are using it and it's reduced their "moderation" work to zero. Some are spending hours a day 🤯 I've just collected a small test dataset, and I'm getting over 94% accuracy on a NLP pre-trained from wikipedia. Next step will be to build a small web app to allow users to connect to their channel and then relaunch to see the uptake/usage. It's funny that an idea I built in a lunchtime could actually become something people want. Everything else I've built takes months and usually fails.

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

I built this after getting sick of YouTube doing nothing about these scammers. Hopefully this makes the experience of YouTube a little better for everyone. Obviously there is tons of things that could be done here e.g. using NLP classifier etc. But it's pretty simple and works for 99% of scenarios. Let me know what you think!

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5yr ago

Awesome idea. Those scammy comments are getting out of control. I'd love to see something like this for the channels I admin. Maybe there's a product idea there. I imagine you could use the YouTube data API to delete the baddies via this: https://developers.google.com/yo...

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

Fantastic point, this was a quick project. To build what you are suggesting (which I agree with) would be worth knowing what creators/editors/admins would pay for this automated spam detection? $10/channel per month?

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

@laurenproctor32 Hi Lauren - turns out you were right, I've received DMs and emails asking for this. Building an ML model to fix this.

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5yr ago

@ashley_rudland Awesome! Excited to see when it goes live.

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

@laurenproctor32 now live: https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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5yr ago

@ashley_rudland Awesome. You're the best!

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

Hey everyone - so I built the service @laurenproctor32 suggested, it's currently being used by one YouTuber with over 230k subscribers. The NN is performing 99% of the time on 15,000 comments. I'm currently awaiting approval from Google to allow high volume on their YouTube Data API. Once approved, I'll relaunch here on product hunt.

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5yr ago

How likely it is that it will hide no-scam comment?

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

Zero at the moment. If I add an NLP classifier then that will go up but it would be more generalised.

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

@damsmaka pivoted to killspam.app

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5yr ago

Great idea! Is it for the channel owner or the viewer?

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

At the moment just for the viewer. But as Lauren suggested above maybe there is a product there if you provide it to channel owners? Not sure if there is enough demand to warrant building it?

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5yr ago

Auto Purge YouTube Scam Comments spam

Maker

@ken_moo pivoted to killspam.app

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5yr ago

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