Yea, Youtube is basically a hostile entity. Whether it is because of their political bias or lately their corporate-content bias. I like the term JimmyTube. It's fitting for so many reasons.
I exclusively watch independent creators on Youtube and just about everything Youtube did lately was to promote corporate content and penalize independent creators. If I pay anything I'll do so directly to those I watch. Youtube is nothing but a necessary evil that I'm forced to visit because they have a monopoly.
Most insightful comment I've seen so far and I wish I had a mod point to give you. Never get 'em, for reasons always unknown. (Maybe 10 or 15 years ago I sometimes had a few?)
However my question would be "How can you actually find those 'independent creators' within the mountain of drek?"
Having said that, I have a link to share. It's my luckiest video, but how should I share it? If shared via YouTube, they might provide some "accounting" (as if I want to track the viewers). If shared from the place where An
You admit in the summary to not using an ad blocker, maybe you don't get mod points because you're just not a nerd?
As for how you find independent content creators, you have to have interests. There isn't a "give me cool stuff about whatever is cool that somebody else chose but is independent" channel that you can just passively watch. You have to have interests, and you have to type those interests in to the text search box and then press enter.
For example, if you type in "opamp circuit" or "yak shaving" y
I don't see where you're getting that in the summary, but I have two responses on the topic:
(1) If I'm receiving free content that is funded by advertising, then I feel a moral obligation to accept the ads. However, an honest solution approach would allow me to pick my own ads rather than having them pushed down my throat based on secret profiles that they have built up from various sources. (How about an option to trade time for ads? You could accept the ads they want to shove at you for a shorter time, or pick your favorite ads and get more of them?)
(2) Paywalls suck.
On your example side, I'm mostly interested in news highlights from reputable sources. As far as I know, that's the only part of YouTube that sort of works fairly. Or maybe it's even in my favor? I don't even want to spend the time to watch entire news programs when there was no actual news that day. I can scan the clips on YouTube and pick the ones that seem to be worth viewing, then watch them at my leisure. (Actually, mostly I just listen to them while I'm doing other stuff in the foreground.)
(1) If I'm receiving free content that is funded by advertising, then I feel a moral obligation to accept the ads.
What if you are receiving free content that is funded by the creator, where the advertisement revenue is just a nice bonus for the creator that isnt part of his creation model, and may have even been forced upon them?
There are a lot of math/science/nerd/gearhead/machinist channels on youtube that are exactly like that. They would do it even if they got no revenue from youtube, started doing it well before any creator had gotten any revenue from youtube, and are faced with the choice of (A) having ads but
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Yea, Youtube is basically a hostile entity. Whether it is because of their political bias or lately their corporate-content bias. I like the term JimmyTube. It's fitting for so many reasons.
I exclusively watch independent creators on Youtube and just about everything Youtube did lately was to promote corporate content and penalize independent creators. If I pay anything I'll do so directly to those I watch. Youtube is nothing but a necessary evil that I'm forced to visit because they have a monopoly.
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Most insightful comment I've seen so far and I wish I had a mod point to give you. Never get 'em, for reasons always unknown. (Maybe 10 or 15 years ago I sometimes had a few?)
However my question would be "How can you actually find those 'independent creators' within the mountain of drek?"
Having said that, I have a link to share. It's my luckiest video, but how should I share it? If shared via YouTube, they might provide some "accounting" (as if I want to track the viewers). If shared from the place where An
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You admit in the summary to not using an ad blocker, maybe you don't get mod points because you're just not a nerd?
As for how you find independent content creators, you have to have interests. There isn't a "give me cool stuff about whatever is cool that somebody else chose but is independent" channel that you can just passively watch. You have to have interests, and you have to type those interests in to the text search box and then press enter.
For example, if you type in "opamp circuit" or "yak shaving" y
Re:Pay for censorship? (Score:2)
I don't see where you're getting that in the summary, but I have two responses on the topic:
(1) If I'm receiving free content that is funded by advertising, then I feel a moral obligation to accept the ads. However, an honest solution approach would allow me to pick my own ads rather than having them pushed down my throat based on secret profiles that they have built up from various sources. (How about an option to trade time for ads? You could accept the ads they want to shove at you for a shorter time, or pick your favorite ads and get more of them?)
(2) Paywalls suck.
On your example side, I'm mostly interested in news highlights from reputable sources. As far as I know, that's the only part of YouTube that sort of works fairly. Or maybe it's even in my favor? I don't even want to spend the time to watch entire news programs when there was no actual news that day. I can scan the clips on YouTube and pick the ones that seem to be worth viewing, then watch them at my leisure. (Actually, mostly I just listen to them while I'm doing other stuff in the foreground.)
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(1) If I'm receiving free content that is funded by advertising, then I feel a moral obligation to accept the ads.
What if you are receiving free content that is funded by the creator, where the advertisement revenue is just a nice bonus for the creator that isnt part of his creation model, and may have even been forced upon them?
There are a lot of math/science/nerd/gearhead/machinist channels on youtube that are exactly like that. They would do it even if they got no revenue from youtube, started doing it well before any creator had gotten any revenue from youtube, and are faced with the choice of (A) having ads but