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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
ataradov:
YouTube created the ability to do any of that in a first place. Now they fed up with hosting videos that cost more money to host than the value they bring in. The content is "free" to you because you don't care about storage and hosting costs, but YT needs to worry about that.
You can't have a channel with few hundred views and expect to make a living. Many channels start small and then transition into full-time if content is interesting. If your channel did not pick up, you either can't present it correctly or the topic is just something nobody cares about.
Bud:
There is Nothing on youtube videos that cannot be found as static content on html WEB. If they (Youtube) disappear tomorrow there will be Zelch impact on information availability.
MK14:
--- Quote from: Bud on October 16, 2023, 08:59:47 pm ---There is Nothing on youtube videos that cannot be found as static content on html WEB. If they disappear tomorrow there will be Zelch impact on information availability.
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It is rather convenient, to have so much stuff, presented to you as options using the AI and software, as well as a huge set of videos, that can be searched from the search bar.
Also, its general characteristics, such as the video player features/controls are the same for the different videos that can be played back. Which is also helpful.
But some things are annoying, such as the removal of the display of the dislike votes, and other annoying things, some or many of which have already been mentioned in this thread.
thm_w:
--- Quote from: Bud on October 16, 2023, 08:59:47 pm ---There is Nothing on youtube videos that cannot be found as static content on html WEB. If they (Youtube) disappear tomorrow there will be Zelch impact on information availability.
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Clearly false.
There are many people that post their experiments/science/teardowns/lectures/whatever exclusively to youtube and nowhere else. Whether you value that information or not is a different argument.
ataradov:
Just results from the Applied Science alone are enough to disprove that statement. Sure, he relies on the information available out there, but he also contributes a significant portion back. And that only exists as a video.
Otherwise you can argue that all the information exists in printed books and screw the web, it has no value.
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