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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on March 22, 2024, 11:14:37 am ---And then there are also a ton of howto videos like this, Russian Roulette via Table Saw (trigger warning for woodworkers), which demonstrate pretty much everything you can do wrong when using one.
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Ah yes, the excuse being "I haven't had any problems therefore it is OK".
That happens too often on this forum, my triggers being floating scopes and using solderless breadboards :(
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 22, 2024, 10:19:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Buriedcode on March 22, 2024, 04:36:44 am ---This thread is very reminiscent of an Eti thread.
I don't like x. I expect x to do this. but x doesn't do this, and people should make x do this for me.
Viewing youtube videos is optional. And if you are complaining that many - perhaps most - are "useless" to you then I'm not sure what you expect anyone to do about it - or care.
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I disagree. The article tggzzz posted matches my own experience. There is a lot of fake AI generated content on Youtube. For example, I'm looking for a new bench DMM at the moment. When going on Youtube to find reviews, the results are swamped with videos called '5 best bench multimeters'. None of those videos is real as in somebody went through the trouble of actually reviewing 5 multimeters. It is just chat GPT selecting 5 random DMMs and repeating the manufacturer's marketing wank. In the end those videos are just useless noise and Youtube should do something about it.
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Such repetition of marketing wank also occurs in non-video material, and is successfully fighting its way to the top of gurgle's results. At least it only takes 10s to ignore it.
Damn SEO; I remember when google.edu determined worth by the number of pages that linked to a a page - an analogue of the "science citation index" concept. Nowadays it is more like the FarceBook concept: whatever is newest and gives gurgle the most advertising revenue.
coppice:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on March 22, 2024, 11:14:37 am ---And when you do a Google search for how to fix some problem the first twenty hits are invariably useless Youtube videos where you have to sit through eight minutes of drivel (the optimum length for monetising a video on Youtube) to find out that there's nothing of any use in there and you need to skip to the next eight-minute load of drivel video which will also probably be totally useless for what you need to do.
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That reflects more on Google than on Youtube. That Google search didn't only get you a lot of dodgy Youtube videos. It got you a variety of non-video junk too. 10 years ago a Google search was a pretty effective way to find things. Now its complete garbage. They improved i a bit over the low point maybe 5 years ago, but they seem incapable of undoing the damage they have done.
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on March 22, 2024, 11:14:37 am ---Having said that, there are occasional videos that'll show you how to solve a particular problem, but they're in a channel with six followers in Turkish with no CC available.
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When I was in college, I studied German and Russian in part so that I could read (no Internet yet) technical content that was only available in those languages.
It’s a good thing I actually like learning languages, because otherwise I would feel like a complete idiot after seeing YouTube’s automatic subtitling / translation. As a former translator, I am very impressed.
Ian.M:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 22, 2024, 11:47:46 am ---
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on March 22, 2024, 11:14:37 am ---And then there are also a ton of howto videos like this, Russian Roulette via Table Saw (trigger warning for woodworkers), which demonstrate pretty much everything you can do wrong when using one.
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Ah yes, the excuse being "I haven't had any problems therefore it is OK".
That happens too often on this forum, my triggers being floating scopes and using solderless breadboards :(
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I'm with you on floating scopes, but its fairly difficult to kill yourself with a solderless breadboard . . .
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