"I really struggle trying to understand the addiction", was my original statement. The two last words are important.
Engywuck
joined 2 years ago
I'm specifically talking about the video as a medium to share information, and youtube is the worst, as it's 99% filled with crappy influencer stuff whose only aim is to monetize people's time.
Well, maybe they'll get rid of the cookies banners /s.
To each their own, I guess. I prefer written stuff.
TBF, just leaving YouTube would be better. There's plenty of information out there which don't need some glorified video hosting platform (books, blogs, wikis and so oh). I really struggle trying to understand people's addiction to YT...
What about open sourcing stuff, instead of making it just "unsupported"?
One data point isn't statistically significant.
And they are systematically downvoted to hell.
People here loves to downvote for every little shit they disagree with... And they say Reddit is toxic... Anyway, I don't care. I just disable "show score" in settings and let the kids play.
Back to the topic, I don't use youtube at all, I don't like watching videos. I think Kagi is a great idea, but honestly 10 €/month is a lot of money for me at the moment, so I'm just self-hosting SearXNG and call it a day.
Because according to their perception "search" has less value than "watch", which may make sense if one seldom really uses a search engine (i.e., they just use the same 3-4 websites).
Sam . Mine is hosted on my RPi. Not ideal, I know, but at least it strips out tracking bits from the upstream engines.
Jeez, guys... You're a paleontologist or what? That happened centuries ago.