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I avoid anything with Ads and will simply avoid YouTube, as I already have been avoiding it for a long time for simply not having useful content.

by a1o 3y ago

thinkingtoilet 3y ago
To suggest YouTube doesn't have "useful" content seems objectively false. I think it should be considered the 8th wonder of the world. Need to see how to install a car seat? Need to fix a burner on your stove? Need to learn Hindi? Need to hear a live version of a Tom Waits song he only played once? Need to learn more about Philippine-American War? Need to learn what the difference between effect and affect is? My wife's friend's husband has a channel where he literally only reviews air purifiers and has millions of views. You get the idea. YouTube has become an unrivaled global database of human knowledge. I fail to see how anyone can call that useless.
- visarga 3y ago
  > I think it should be considered the 8th wonder of the world. Second that. If YouTube videos disappeared, I think internet would lose half its worth. I still hate their limited suggestions and discoverability, but the content is top notch. Many researchers publish YT videos for their papers, and don't publish on any other platform. So YT is the cutting edge of science as well.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    There were video sites before YouTube, and Limewire before that. The internet wouldn't lose its worth at all, the content would be distributed elsewhere.
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- vinyl7 3y ago
  It's useless because there are thousands of idiots with a camera who record pointless clickbait videos to extract ad money. The signal-to-noise ratio is completely out of wack. There are are tons of 10+ minute videos about topics which say absolutely nothing. It's like college papers with a minimum page requirement where the student has to just fill the page with words which mean nothing. There very little actual value in most of the videos. IMO anyone who enjoys and watches youtube regularly uses it as a mind numbing medication to exit our terrible existence of life for a few hours.
  - k12sosse 3y ago
    You know you can train the feeds, right? Or are you one of those "but Google will sell my viewing habits to better represent my demographic" people?
  - Workaccount2 3y ago
    There are thousands of channels that put out top-tier content regularly. I am subbed to over 100 channels and always have a plethora of new stuff to watch. If your interests don't extend beyond stupid click-bait content, I don't find it surprising to think that youtube is only full of stupid clickbait content.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    I shudder at the words "video essay" for this reason. Imagine the world's slowest PowerPoint with the worst voice over you've ever heard.
- water-data-dude 3y ago
  I’ve not used it much in the last few years since I think Google is the antichrist, but when I have gone on Youtube I’ve had trouble finding what I was looking for. In my recent experiences the relevant content has been drowned out by the loud, click-optimized spam where - if the information I’m looking for is present at all - it’s buried in a bunch of fluff
mrits 3y ago
Youtube is my #1 site and I pay the monthly fee to be ad free. I hate ads but don't understand why people don't think Youtube is worth paying for.
- Workaccount2 3y ago
  Because they have backdoored their way to free access for the last 15 years. Now the door is being closed and they are pissed.

I avoid anything with Ads and will simply avoid YouTube, as I already have been avoiding it for a long time for simply not having useful content.

by a1o 3y ago

I avoid anything with Ads and will simply avoid YouTube, as I already have been avoiding it for a long time for simply not having useful content.

thinkingtoilet 3y ago

To suggest YouTube doesn't have "useful" content seems objectively false. I think it should be considered the 8th wonder of the world. Need to see how to install a car seat? Need to fix a burner on your stove? Need to learn Hindi? Need to hear a live version of a Tom Waits song he only played once? Need to learn more about Philippine-American War? Need to learn what the difference between effect and affect is? My wife's friend's husband has a channel where he literally only reviews air purifiers and has millions of views. You get the idea. YouTube has become an unrivaled global database of human knowledge. I fail to see how anyone can call that useless.

visarga 3y ago
> I think it should be considered the 8th wonder of the world. Second that. If YouTube videos disappeared, I think internet would lose half its worth. I still hate their limited suggestions and discoverability, but the content is top notch. Many researchers publish YT videos for their papers, and don't publish on any other platform. So YT is the cutting edge of science as well.
- rchaud 3y ago
  There were video sites before YouTube, and Limewire before that. The internet wouldn't lose its worth at all, the content would be distributed elsewhere.
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vinyl7 3y ago
It's useless because there are thousands of idiots with a camera who record pointless clickbait videos to extract ad money. The signal-to-noise ratio is completely out of wack. There are are tons of 10+ minute videos about topics which say absolutely nothing. It's like college papers with a minimum page requirement where the student has to just fill the page with words which mean nothing. There very little actual value in most of the videos. IMO anyone who enjoys and watches youtube regularly uses it as a mind numbing medication to exit our terrible existence of life for a few hours.
- k12sosse 3y ago
  You know you can train the feeds, right? Or are you one of those "but Google will sell my viewing habits to better represent my demographic" people?
- Workaccount2 3y ago
  There are thousands of channels that put out top-tier content regularly. I am subbed to over 100 channels and always have a plethora of new stuff to watch. If your interests don't extend beyond stupid click-bait content, I don't find it surprising to think that youtube is only full of stupid clickbait content.
- rchaud 3y ago
  I shudder at the words "video essay" for this reason. Imagine the world's slowest PowerPoint with the worst voice over you've ever heard.
water-data-dude 3y ago
I’ve not used it much in the last few years since I think Google is the antichrist, but when I have gone on Youtube I’ve had trouble finding what I was looking for. In my recent experiences the relevant content has been drowned out by the loud, click-optimized spam where - if the information I’m looking for is present at all - it’s buried in a bunch of fluff

mrits 3y ago

Youtube is my #1 site and I pay the monthly fee to be ad free. I hate ads but don't understand why people don't think Youtube is worth paying for.

Workaccount2 3y ago
Because they have backdoored their way to free access for the last 15 years. Now the door is being closed and they are pissed.