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Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

robin_reala 4y ago
I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.
- deanCommie 4y ago
  YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.
  - kqr 4y ago
    That's also a reason to avoid it, to be honest... any time a publisher becomes closer to a medium than a publisher we're in trouble!
    - noduerme 4y ago
      Everyone here is right.
  - noman-land 4y ago
    "Books" don't get a cut of all book sales, whereas YouTube gets a cut of all video profits. "Books" don't have editorial control over what goes in them, YouTube does. It's clearly closer to a publisher than a medium. Maybe you meant platform instead of medium?
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wkat4242 4y ago
Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!) There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.
- jwrx 4y ago
  YouTube now provide a setting to change the speed of a video. This means you can decrease or increase the speed to meet your viewing requirements.
  - 314 4y ago
    Reading material quickly remains more comfortable than watching a sped-up video. There are many cases in which written material is a better way to transfer information than video. A case in point would be this article, as it is clearly written, balanced and very digestible.
Reason077 4y ago
> ”It's up to you to filter out content you dislike” YouTube’s algorithm is pretty good at doing this for you!
- IIsi50MHz 4y ago
  Er, at doing the inverse, for me. "Oh, you're watching a video on foo? Here's a list of video clickbait trash, with sometimes one more video on foo thrown in. "Oh, you either never open or always bail out of 'shorts'? Here are more of them!"
  - Reason077 4y ago
    Are you actually signed in? I get all the trash if I'm using anonymous browsing or whatever, but not when it knows who I am. The "Shorts" section can be hidden pretty easily.
    - IIsi50MHz 4y ago
      When I'm signed in, it's the same except that it also sometimes suggests somewhere in the list next to a video that's playing a single video that I watched a while ago. For me, YouTube hasn't been able to suggest properly for years; ages ago, suggestions were all clearly related to the current video in some way. The old behaviour lead me to spend lots of time on YouTube. When "Shorts" started appearing on the main page, it somehow seemed like I couldn't get rid of it. I somehow don't want to see it ever, on any computer so it being default is as evil to me as blinking ads. The addition of forced-autoplay-unless-you-sign-in[1] is definitely a case of Making It Suck[2]. So, I increasingly use other clients, or exclude YouTube results from searches. This pretty well gets me away from clickbait rubbish like "$profession doesn't want you to know this!!", grossly exagerated faces/postures, and Shorts. [1] Welll… actually I guess it's "default to autoplay whether signed in or not, and keep resetting it if you're not signed in". [2] Meaning, moving people towards what another behaviour by making something else more difficult.
      - Reason077 4y ago
noduerme 4y ago
Er, (parent here), I'd say it's more like "never buy books at the airport bookstore" rather than "never read books."
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allarm 4y ago
Nothing weird about it. I don’t watch Youtube except the rare cases, and when I have to I download videos. I can't stand getting interrupted for ads during watching so I opted out of youtube completely.

robin_reala 4y ago

I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.

deanCommie 4y ago
YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.
- kqr 4y ago
  That's also a reason to avoid it, to be honest... any time a publisher becomes closer to a medium than a publisher we're in trouble!
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Everyone here is right.
- noman-land 4y ago
  "Books" don't get a cut of all book sales, whereas YouTube gets a cut of all video profits. "Books" don't have editorial control over what goes in them, YouTube does. It's clearly closer to a publisher than a medium. Maybe you meant platform instead of medium?

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wkat4242 4y ago

Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!) There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.

jwrx 4y ago
YouTube now provide a setting to change the speed of a video. This means you can decrease or increase the speed to meet your viewing requirements.
- 314 4y ago
  Reading material quickly remains more comfortable than watching a sped-up video. There are many cases in which written material is a better way to transfer information than video. A case in point would be this article, as it is clearly written, balanced and very digestible.

Reason077 4y ago

> ”It's up to you to filter out content you dislike” YouTube’s algorithm is pretty good at doing this for you!

IIsi50MHz 4y ago
Er, at doing the inverse, for me. "Oh, you're watching a video on foo? Here's a list of video clickbait trash, with sometimes one more video on foo thrown in. "Oh, you either never open or always bail out of 'shorts'? Here are more of them!"
- Reason077 4y ago
  Are you actually signed in? I get all the trash if I'm using anonymous browsing or whatever, but not when it knows who I am. The "Shorts" section can be hidden pretty easily.
  - IIsi50MHz 4y ago
    When I'm signed in, it's the same except that it also sometimes suggests somewhere in the list next to a video that's playing a single video that I watched a while ago. For me, YouTube hasn't been able to suggest properly for years; ages ago, suggestions were all clearly related to the current video in some way. The old behaviour lead me to spend lots of time on YouTube. When "Shorts" started appearing on the main page, it somehow seemed like I couldn't get rid of it. I somehow don't want to see it ever, on any computer so it being default is as evil to me as blinking ads. The addition of forced-autoplay-unless-you-sign-in[1] is definitely a case of Making It Suck[2]. So, I increasingly use other clients, or exclude YouTube results from searches. This pretty well gets me away from clickbait rubbish like "$profession doesn't want you to know this!!", grossly exagerated faces/postures, and Shorts. [1] Welll… actually I guess it's "default to autoplay whether signed in or not, and keep resetting it if you're not signed in". [2] Meaning, moving people towards what another behaviour by making something else more difficult.
    - Reason077 4y ago

noduerme 4y ago

Er, (parent here), I'd say it's more like "never buy books at the airport bookstore" rather than "never read books."

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allarm 4y ago

Nothing weird about it. I don’t watch Youtube except the rare cases, and when I have to I download videos. I can't stand getting interrupted for ads during watching so I opted out of youtube completely.