Why does a random content farm control youtube.com/playlists?

[judge2020]

Because YT reserved /playlist and not /playlists. They also haven't reserved /watchs or /watched.

People will quickly realize that /playlists loads some random channel they don't care about and will click away.

[judge2020]

To add: the top video only has 10k views over 2 months. YT is watched by billions of people every day, 5k people a month accidentally going to /playlists probably isn't worth the cost of kicking back their username and paying the engineers to make the commit reserving that url.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Honestly I'm surprised that YT would let users have anything like a top level path; I'd expect it to be all youtube.com/u/myuser/$FOO where FOO can be a video or playlist or whatever.

[klyrs]

Because youtube hasn't siezed it from them yet?

What I'd want to know is what percentage of netizens* even know that you can just add stuff to a url willy-nilly.

* as I type this word, the cognoscenti can literally hear my bones creak

[michaelteter]

Typical people don't add stuff to a URL, but if they see a link that says "youtube.com/playlists", they will probably not expect it to be some garbage channel not affiliated with Youtube.

[LadyCailin]

A related topic that probably most people don’t know about is the public suffix list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List

[Racing0461]

it's all content farms.

[zeruch]

Because "enshittificationj".

I realize that is horribly glib, but it's also horribly accurate.