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YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by softwaredoug »

My personal theory on this is prestige TV is in a recession.

After Game of thrones season 8, people wonder why they should invest into a show when there’s a high chance it won’t pay off. Even for a good show it can feel like work. That plus the high cost for studios and over abundance of supply, meant studios pulled back.

Instead we’re seeing a reemergence of low effort TV. And YouTube plays nicely into that.

At some point this pendulum may swing back (remember in 2000s when everything was low effort reality TV).

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by benbristow »

analog8374 wrote: post #15
benbristow wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conspiracy theories nowadays are about a year away from being conspiracy fact. Digital ID is being HEAVILY pushed by the Labour government in the UK. Scary times.

If I was a billionaire I would prioritize identifying, monitoring and controlling the underclass.

But that's a conspiracy theory! Why would they ever do that?

... come back to this comment in a year.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by mouse_ »

hectdev wrote: post #16
ambicapter wrote: post #2

Is that why Youtube has become unwatchable?

It's a tool like anything else. I learn SO MUCH from Youtube. Watching someone DIY something where they show all the steps, makes it so accessible. I then learn from them and create some really intricate things from different domains without any formal training. I'm talking car repairs, electrical engineering, woodworking, metal work, gardening, 3d printing. The list goes on and on.

Google figured out how to get all those creators to work for free, to put a nice coat of paint on their fascism Trojan horse. It's a tool of oppression, masquerading as a tool of expression.

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Post by speak_plainly »

There was a time when the algorithm was truly amazing and the recommendations were smart, spot-on, and mostly high quality. I don't know what happened but you have to search now for decent content.

The recommendations part of YouTube just seems to give me old content or will show me things I've already watched. Despite it feeling almost user-hostile, I still use Youtube,

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Post by [deleted] »

timmg wrote: post #14
INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

> Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it. I've been doing a lot more digital purchasing. Like movies and TV shows. I know there is some risk to the services shutting down. But Disney's MoviesAnywhere mitigates that some . I typically buy stuff when it is on sale. Generally a digital movie is (way) cheaper than a single ticket at a theater. And I've kinda built a decent sized li…

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Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by gchamonlive »

timmg wrote: post #14
INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

> Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it. I've been doing a lot more digital purchasing. Like movies and TV shows. I know there is some risk to the services shutting down. But Disney's MoviesAnywhere mitigates that some . I typically buy stuff when it is on sale. Generally a digital movie is (way) cheaper than a single ticket at a theater. And I've kinda built a decent sized li…

> digital purchasing

That's an oxymoron if you can't have a local copy

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by benbristow »

analog8374 wrote: post #19
benbristow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.

So I'm watching a thing on youtube. 5 minutes in I get a commercial. SmartTube can seamlessly delete that commercial?

Yes, no ads from Google's side and ads by creators themselves (e.g. Raid Shadow Legends, SquareSpace, Manscaped, NordVPN etc. etc.) get skipped via a community-sourced database called Sponsorblock.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

(Sponsorblock is also available as a browser extension for most browsers but has an open API for other developers to use)

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by [deleted] »

hectdev wrote: post #16
ambicapter wrote: post #2

Is that why Youtube has become unwatchable?

It's a tool like anything else. I learn SO MUCH from Youtube. Watching someone DIY something where they show all the steps, makes it so accessible. I then learn from them and create some really intricate things from different domains without any formal training. I'm talking car repairs, electrical engineering, woodworking, metal work, gardening, 3d printing. The list goes on and on.

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