The different platforms have varying coverage of different genres, etc. YT music has a lot less of the kind of stuff I listen to compared to Spotify for example.
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The different platforms have varying coverage of different genres, etc. YT music has a lot less of the kind of stuff I listen to compared to Spotify for example.
After splashing out on full price YT Premium for a few months, which I mostly watch on my TV in place of broadcast television, I'm relieved my premium prescription has ended.
I'm subscribed to about 80 channels, all of which have impressed me and held merit at some point or other. Now they're all mostly telling me what I already know or offering a tiny nugget of new information embedded in 10-20 minute videos. It's all becoming brain rot, no matter how highbrow, intellectual, or 'current' the topic is. Clickbait in titles and preview images is rife. There's maybe one 'unmissable' video per week.
Trying YT logged out of my personal account, and it's all drill rap, Mr Beast, and the direst and most facile of celeb / influencer-style gossip.
I'm finding watching shows, even old ones I've already seen, far more gratifying than dredging up content on Youtube Premium. I'll take the 1-2 unmissable videos per week with ads from the finest Youtubers (IMO) who are low on BS and high on original and edifying / entertaining content. Otherwise, the whole platform has become a bad habit of convenience, fast food style.
I'm subscribed to about 80 channels, all of which have impressed me and held merit at some point or other. Now they're all mostly telling me what I already know or offering a tiny nugget of new information embedded in 10-20 minute videos. It's all becoming brain rot, no matter how highbrow, intellectual, or 'current' the topic is. Clickbait in titles and preview images is rife. There's maybe one 'unmissable' video per week.
Trying YT logged out of my personal account, and it's all drill rap, Mr Beast, and the direst and most facile of celeb / influencer-style gossip.
I'm finding watching shows, even old ones I've already seen, far more gratifying than dredging up content on Youtube Premium. I'll take the 1-2 unmissable videos per week with ads from the finest Youtubers (IMO) who are low on BS and high on original and edifying / entertaining content. Otherwise, the whole platform has become a bad habit of convenience, fast food style.
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Indeed I'd like to know what class of videos on yt are better quality than the high-bar? netflix ... about the only thing I have watched on YT in it's entirety are some of the articles by CNBC,
the rest of the videos are skipped through and maybe I watch 5%, but I am a low you user not even 3 a day.
the rest of the videos are skipped through and maybe I watch 5%, but I am a low you user not even 3 a day.
YouTube is largely what you make of it - though there isn't much in the way of high quality shows in the kind of genres Netflix, etc. cover there is tons of high quality content of different types on there (and lots of people cribbing off those making high quality content to produce their own copies as if it was their own original work).
Lots of documentary-style ones, a good example is something like Green Dot Aviation's coverage of MH370 compared to the absolute rubbish Netflix put out.
As above, YT is what you make of it and it will all come down to the content you enjoy/watch.
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You got your answers last time you asked this. You seem to use YT for picking bits of knowledge out of videos which is fine, others use it to watch long content in it's entirety and as said a lot of it is very well made.
I'll have to compare the mh370 documentary against the bbc one https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001x0yh/why-why-planes-vanish-the-hunt-for-mh370
youtubes something new and shiny like tiktok too, but everyone making similar shows and drama series dilutes the finances
.. how would heinz beans taste/cost if they had a monopoly, or if my coffee supplier didn't want to present 10's of different beans with subtly different (supposed) flavours
jpaul stuff
Install SmartTube instead. No more ads and it's free.