• ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net
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    11 hours ago

    Most of it absolute bullshit designed to piss people off… Hell even a lot of the “how to” videos contain a lot of rage bait. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a mechanic doing something obviously wrong (and stupid) to generate “engagement” in the comments…

    So yeah, I go look something up like how to install a car wrap (last night’s video).

    One guy was obviously a moron, skipped it. Next guy kind of seemed to know what he was doing. Then I was done.

    Maybe if it’s an exceptionally good video I’ll give it a like, but I never comment and I NEVER subscribe. And when I’m done, I close the window.

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      yeah, in the old days, yt was paying per view. now they pay for the time the viewer sticks around on the platform. therefore videos get unnecessary prolonged and such interactions get promoted.

      i have a couple of authors which i follow, so that i don’t need to look up and simply filter out what might be interesting to me.

      but i would much prefer to get those videos via other channels. at some point i had a program set up, which just grabs videos from the author i choose to my local machine, but my home server is currently not up and disc space became a serious budget issue.