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CR hasn’t completed an insightful review in ages. It isn’t even worth subscribing prior to a major purchase. I find independent YouTubers significantly better.
by BikiniPrince 5y ago
CR hasn’t completed an insightful review in ages. It isn’t even worth subscribing prior to a major purchase.
I find independent YouTubers significantly better.
To a point! There are a number of obvious non-critical flooded reviews for lots of products.
I suppose in closing CR is garbage and you have to do relevant research commiserate with how much you want to spend/care.
If only we had a review organization we could trust!
- tablespoon 5y ago> CR hasn’t completed an insightful review in ages. It isn’t even worth subscribing prior to a major purchase. > I find independent YouTubers significantly better. Could me extremely skeptical. "Independence" on YouTube is very cheap and easy to fake. IMHO, YouTube is mainly useful for video of someone poking at a product, because for some reason retailers and manufacturers don't provide good enough media on product pages to get anywhere close to substituting for seeing something in person.
- prepend 5y agoI’ve recently used their reviews for doors, roof shingles, and washing machines. YouTube isn’t even a similar product. I assume all reviewers are paid and have no idea their methodology. I like CR because their methods are defined and they don’t have any competing agendas (ads, sponsored posts, product placement , etc)
- smsm42 5y agoHow would one know if Youtuber is independent? Say, I need to buy a lawnmower. How do I know which reviewers are good and which are idiots and which are paid shills? It's kinda hard to figure it on YT. If I have a specific product in mind, I can look through YT reviews of this specific one as a point of information. But if I have 100 potential lawnmowers to sort through, I won't watch every YT review for 100 products, I'd have to take a sabbatical for that. YT doesn't fill the niche.