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by andsoitis 1423 days ago
It sounds like you find near-zero value from YouTube, so you might as well stop using it?
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I find value, but at what cost? When you are info hungry you don't like your precious time being wasted bc of inefficient systems hindering your work. Do I have to write API helper scripts and scrapers in 2022 for a top10 visited internet site?

BUT, BUT, BUT THE PINNACLE OF INNOVATION IS YOUTUBE/GOOGLE, RIGHT?

And they host these nice and trendy videos about how advanced they are, and how you should do your coding, how you should organize your work, your life, your team, whatever. And the terrible libraries... gimme a fn break. Too bad for the end consumer, it's all about pain.

I mean even porn sites have finer grained control on content filtering than YT :DDD. I'm wondering why they are not opening their code base and let the coding done by individuals, OF COURSE, FOR FREE! ha ha ha

Maybe near-zero but not zero. They said that they watch content from 10 (out of the 100) creators they are subscribed to.

I'm in a similar position. I'm subscribed to 78 channels but typically will only watch content from a fraction of these due to preferences on quality and time (some creators have good content but end up putting up an hour video, which I am less likely to view).

> I'm subscribed to 78 channels but typically will only watch content from a fraction of these

Statement indistinguishable from classic cable TV user.

^^^ mil has arrived :D
I have stopped.