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>Nobody "needs" to watch a YouTube video. Maybe they want to watch one. Youtube's giant selection of people demonstrating every DIY repair topic (car repair, a

by jasode 3y ago

>Nobody "needs" to watch a YouTube video. Maybe they want to watch one. Youtube's giant selection of people demonstrating every DIY repair topic (car repair, appliance repair, iPhone battery replace, etc) you can think of -- that's available nowhere else -- has literally saved me thousands of dollars (no exaggeration). I guess one could twist that into "you didn't really _need_ to save thousands of dollar$, you just _wanted_ to." Youtube is much more than frivolous music videos and you're too dismissive of how it helps people. EDIT REPLY TO: "Doesn't justify their advertising." I wasn't responding to the advertising business model. My issue was the "nobody _needs_ to watch a Youtube video" is way too dismissive. >There's always other sources of information. There's always better sources of information. Not always. Last week, I needed to replace an oxygen sensor on my truck and wanted some guidance on how to do it. Yes, a pdf of a vehicle service manual has diagrams etc but that book doesn't show a video of someone actually doing it. I need to see somebody actually put a wrench on the the bolts and unplug the sensor cable. I watched 5 different mechanics do it and I'm glad I did because there are some tricky issues that my inexperience would not have solved on my own. Vimeo and other video services didn't have this car repair content. Only Youtube.

matheusmoreira 3y ago
YouTube videos have helped me a lot as well. Doesn't justify their advertising. There's always other sources of information. There's always better sources of information. I make it a point to read books now. Libraries should be valued.
- mdp2021 3y ago
  > Doesn't justify their advertising Doesn't justify their invasive advertising. > There's always other sources of information There are, sometimes, different sources of information (you would be giving up a massive amount of resources). > There's always better sources of information Not necessarily. Sometimes information is scarce and hard to find. > I make it a point to read books now. Libraries should be valued That is not an exclusive alternative.

by jasode 3y ago

matheusmoreira 3y ago

YouTube videos have helped me a lot as well. Doesn't justify their advertising. There's always other sources of information. There's always better sources of information. I make it a point to read books now. Libraries should be valued.

mdp2021 3y ago
> Doesn't justify their advertising Doesn't justify their invasive advertising. > There's always other sources of information There are, sometimes, different sources of information (you would be giving up a massive amount of resources). > There's always better sources of information Not necessarily. Sometimes information is scarce and hard to find. > I make it a point to read books now. Libraries should be valued That is not an exclusive alternative.