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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 crap and time consuming video format.
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.
Unless it’s one of those generic crappy ai articles, in which case it’s guaranteed to be on top
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.
Sadly, from what I gathered, a lot of kids will follow a video link rather than a text one.
I'm the exact opposite as for 90% of topics, I'll be able to extract the same amount of information in 1/10th of the time.
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.
So many videos don’t even use the picture for anything useful. You can go for a walk and just listen to the audio part instead, and you won’t miss anything essential. Just leave the phone in your pocket while you walk to the train station or something. It’s really surprising how many videos work perfect well as background content like that.
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.
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...
Everything has to be monetized now because the Internet killed a lot of business models and content was heavily subsidized through other means.
We want to go back to the "free as in beer" Internet model, but the underlying economics of what allowed that to happen is gone.
Well, too bad. I myself don't use YT a lot (as in: almost never) and frankly I'll avoid clicking on YT links, if written alternatives are available (and often even in they are). Maybe it's just a generational thing (I'm oldish)
How many of your generation are on sites like Lemmy.
I think we are a naturally self selecting crowd here.
Very true.
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.
Sometimes I prefer to read, sometimes I prefer to watch
Man, am I glad these video formats exist. When you have ADHD, reading is agony. Any information I need, I look up whether there's a video about it. Reading is the last resort.
For me it's the opposite, actually. I can focus much more easily while reading than watching a video.
Yes, It's so convenient to grep through a video for the bit you need.
I find running youtube at 2x speed makes it more tolerable.
This. Half of the videos I watch, I watch at 1.25x or faster.
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.
"I wish motion pictures don't exist."
This comment explains the issue much better than I did: https://lemm.ee/comment/5865257