https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?list=WL&index=1&themeRefresh=1&v=gIHi9yH6UB0
It’s a shame that nowadays a lot of potentially interesting subjects come mostly as crappy and time consuming video format. Did people unlearn how to read?
It’s so infuriating with DIY stuff and video game guides. There’s definitely a use for video in those contexts, but a lot of times I have one specific need. I don’t need to know how to completely disassemble my faucet, I just need to know how to get one handle off, and rather than search through a video and then rewind it fifty times I’d much rather have some words and pictures that I can scan through at my own speed.
I love having both, and hate how search engines tend to drown me in video recommendations in the general search to the point that the text versions are hard to find.
It would be great if there was a text results group like there are groups for videos and images.
Interesting, i feel somewhat the opposite. i do camera repairs on film cameras, and having the exploded diagrams and manufacturers service guide is great, but a video of someone doing a full disassembly and reassembly is generally much more helpful in that context and allows me to scrub through the video to the parts i need for my repair.
My largely uninformed opinion has always been that it’s about monetization: you don’t make the kind of money off ads on a blog that you can off a popular YouTube site. That, of course, is all Google’s decision. Presumably advertisers are willing to pay a lot more for video ad placement than for banner ads or something.
Ironic that this is apparently about company decisions leading to less ad revenue, and some of us won’t even bother clicking the link now that we know it’s a video rather than an article.
Yup; we are not the target audience, I guess
I hate YouTube so fucking much. The internet was once a useful place where you could find the instructions for anything you could dream. Now it is a wasteland of SEO laden video. Google is a bloated stinking corpse and its rot is befouling the whole internet. Being “evil” was a distraction, being useless is the bigger crime.
Hey thanks. This is neat and way better than the dumb pipe bot pushing links that never work anyway. Agree completely not everything needs to be a video. Hopefully this shoot themselves in the foot policy will promote more text-based reporting.
Probably when other information vectors became ubiquitous. Though this kind of content is probably best consumed while doing something else when reading would be impractical since the graphics largely aren’t necessary for understanding the material.
Also it makes the creator more money than a digital article ever would.
I find running youtube at 2x speed makes it more tolerable.
Yes, It’s so convenient to grep through a video for the bit you need.
Sometimes I prefer to read, sometimes I prefer to watch
On the creator end, probably because it is easier to monetize than text.
That’s the problem. Everything has to be monetized. Maybe I’m old and nostalgic, but I remember at the beginning of 2000s (and even before), “creators” were just people wanting to share their hobbies/opinions/passions/whatever. They had their own website (later, blogs), with, as most, contextual banners on them or donations links, whatever… Now it’s just unnecessarily long, time wasting videos full of ads or sponsored segments, clickbaity titles, ridiculous thumbnails on corporate services fulls of ads and tracking… For the life of me, I can’t understand people watching hours and hours of “content” everyday. There’s some kind of addiction going on.I can barely stand 2-3 videos per year, and only skipping to the relevant parts if they’re really interesting tutorials. On the contrary, I could spend literally hours jumping for link to link on, for instance, Wikipedia. Reading is much more convenient and less annoying…
Some people like me just don’t want their face plastered to the screen all the time reading text. Videos take the least amount of focus on-screen to understand the message. If audio is what you want, you can just listen to it while you do other things.
Fast forward, rewind, position seeking thumbnails, speed conteol are a thing. Videos can play in the background on smartphones too.
I already code most of the day. I don’t want more stress to my eyes than I already put them through. I even use Text to Speech for text content to lessen the duration my eyes spend onscreen.
They don’t seem to understand how much effort I’m willing to put in to be unprofitable.
And the time we have to put in that effort. Seeing those messages want me to block them even more and if they block me, then it’s a challenge to unblock it.
Plus the dev-hours spent combating ad blockers are billable. My hours aren’t.
Having so many ads I couldn’t even get to the content or comments was my final straw. I sideloaded uYou through Altstore and now have a great time without all the BS. No, Alphabet, your cesspit app full of ads isn’t going to make me subscribe to Premium. It’s done the opposite.
A pre-roll ad and a banner was obnoxious enough for me to start using ubo on desktop, on mobile I kept using the official app because newpipe is not a very nice user experience.
When they started to play two long pre-roll ads, one mid-roll ad for every couple of minutes of content, and a post-roll ad I switched to NewPipe and Libretube. I felt like the content-to-ad ratio was close to 1 recently. Way worse than it ever was on TV.
It’s insulting to its audience. Apparently that’s the new cool thing in marketing. I can’t wait to see this house of cards collapse completely. I honestly hope it takes half the industry with it. Too many greedy sycophants out there.
Oh, they certainly will. Once my adblocksr stops working, I’m never using it again.
I’ve already cut back a lot on my youtube usage even though I never see ads. (Thank you sooo much UBO!!) I used to visit nearly every day but now it’s down to maybe a few times a week tops, and even then it’s through invidius or freetube.
It’s actually kind of ironic Because I wouldn’t have ad blockers if there wasn’t so many ads
Ya killed the golden chicken google
This is just like someone famous asking for an unflattering picture of them to be deleted from the internet.
