I'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.
I associate her with censorship. Should I respect her for that?
Susan Wojcicki has died
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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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To a fairly casual observer like myself, YouTube early on looked like mostly a platform for massive video copyright infringement--especially before home video became so relatively cheap and easy. I don't use it nearly as much as some here but it definitely transformed into something much different for the most part and managed to make it work as a business (at least as part of Google).
Younger folks forget that YouTube launched (2005) a few years before both the iPhone launched and Netflix pivoted to streaming (2007). In that weird era, (a) average home Internet connections became fast enough to support streaming video (with a healthy adoption growth rate), (b) the most widely deployed home recording device was likely still the VCR (digitizing analog video from cable to burn to DVD was a pain), (c)…
That was also an era where bandwidth to serve content was extremely expensive, I still don't know how 2005 YouTube was able to find a way to make serving user-uploaded videos for free financially viable, but that was a HUGE component of their success.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
#283More familiar information about her and her successful family [1]. The book is available here [2] (the Kindle version is more expensive than the physical book editions though). Interesting to mention about the Polgar sisters again [3]. Z''L. [1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-godmother-of-silicon-va... [2] https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Successful-People-Lessons/d... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1s…
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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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Main factors are sleep, sunlight, diet and exercise as well as stress. You can see her schedule here: https://press.farm/susan-wojcickis-daily-routine-youtubes-ce... Sleep about 6hr, which isnt ideal. Not much chance to get sunlight which significantly reduces cancer incidence. Not much relaxing time. The question becomes, is the work worth it?
That's probably not her real schedule. It looks like clickbait and was probably invented by the author. (Who might be our prolific friend Chat-GPT.) Besides 10:00pm to 5:30am is 7.5 hours, which is either optimal or (arguably) too much. Lastly, there's no clear evidence tying sleep duration to cancer incidence. See, e.g.: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-...
arguably too much sleep? what world are you living in that seven and a half hours of sleep is too much?
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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Oh lol. I thought he was dead. The point still stands
The point doesn‘t stand, because you made a claim about what people supposedly said or didn’t say after Chomsky passed away. And he didn‘t even pass.
A lot of people thought he did die and they did say things about him.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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> It never got around to incentivize creators to produce concise content and to this day creators keep producing massive 30 min diatribe that could have been done in 3 mins. Why on Earth would you want shorter videos? The best thing about YouTube is that it's one of the only places you can find quality medium-to-long-form content.
Why on earth you want 10X longer video with same information content as the shorter video?
I find it a small price to pay if a few videos are too long (you can usually tell within three minutes anyway), to have a platform that generally encourages 30 minute videos and even 3 hour videos that do have content.
There's almost no meaningful 3 minute content possible, so a platform like TikTok that only works for short videos is basically condemned to be meaning-less, to be pure entertainment.
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I’m not sure what you mean about the UI, but I pay for YouTube Premium exclusively so I don’t have to see ads, and for that purpose alone, to me it’s worth it.
Why not just use an ad blocker?
I, for one, will pay for good things.. but also, it’s worth it if you watch a lot of YouTube on things like AppleTV or Fire Cube. Ad blockers won’t work there.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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Why not just use an ad blocker?
Why not pay for a product you use instead of being a leech? It is perfectly fine if you wanna leech, but understand not everyone wanna do that.
Not looking at an advertisement is not “being a leech.”
I glance away from billboards, I refill my drink during commercial breaks, I show up when the movie starts instead of when the preview starts. These are normal behaviors, not leech behaviors. The ads are not very sophisticated, so I don’t need sophisticated measures to avoid them. On the web, the ads have ratcheted up the intensity (tracking, targeting) with technology and in response I have augmented my ability to ignore with technology. That’s fair.
You have framed this as a contrast between leeches and normal people, but this is actually a contrast between normal people and bootlickers. It is perfectly fine if you want to guzzle Kiwi Black, but understand not everyone wants to do that.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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>Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN Who? Who has a negative opinion about YouTube? The occasional "My kids watch too much of it" != "mixed opinions" about the site in general.
A lot of YouTubers have been very critical of YouTube’s approach to things and treatment of creators in the past. Also, just as an example, YouTube demonetises (and therefore effectively punishes) you for using words like ‘suicide’ so now we have to say silly things like ‘unalive’ — at least until Google/the advertisers catch on. These days YouTube is more censored than traditional TV.
Demonetisation is not the same as censoring though.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
#290More familiar information about her and her successful family [1]. The book is available here [2] (the Kindle version is more expensive than the physical book editions though). Interesting to mention about the Polgar sisters again [3]. Z''L. [1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-godmother-of-silicon-va... [2] https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Successful-People-Lessons/d... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1s…
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Have you read the book?