Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

• Wolf_359@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, YouTube has far more variety and far more content overall. Personally, I have seen pretty much anything worth watching on the major streaming services. My wife and I can pretty much just ignore any top 200 list of shows or movies because we have already seen it all and anything we haven’t seen doesn’t look interesting to us. We pretty much just have to wait for new shows to come out.

  YouTube though. It’s functionally unlimited considering the length of a human lifespan.

  For some insight, a quick Google search says that Netflix has about 4 years of content if you sat down and watched everything they have to offer. Meanwhile, YouTube has about 18,000 years of content.

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  • visualfeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are they including all those 10-hour long loop videos I uploaded?

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    • HERRAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d take 10h shreksophone over 3 of those 4 years worth of netflix content any day of the week!

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve never been one to really get into the loop of watching YouTube endlessly. It’s felt like my use has been more like a search engine.

    For me it’s not really been a great source of entertainment. At best background noise. Quantity of hours is a useless metric for me when most of it is stuff that feels like unnecessary content. I think it’s most telling that what makes YouTube watchable for me is sponsorblock with one of my most used functions skip to highlight, and blocktube to block the popular channels that dominate search results. And lately youtubetranscript to just save myself time watching and overly long 10+ minute long segment in favor of quickly skimming over the words.

    I feel the algorithm promoting long videos has ruined the quality with now more videos trying to fit that minimum length.

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• ultimate_question@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The irony of this comment is you can find the cooking show but not Westworld on HBO lol

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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or $20 for thousands of different channels of all kinds of content.

  At least be honest about it.

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How much of those channels are actually quality content let alone manage to keep the attention of viewers to watch an entire video? It’s like a cable services advertising that it has thousands of channels. Videos that manage to hold my attention even for 10 minutes on YouTube has been rare, and mostly aided by 2x speeds to shorten it down by half.

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve got close to 100 channels that I subscribe to and watch regularly. Probably another 300 that I watch occasionally. YouTube makes up 90% of my visual content. The other 10% being sports that isn’t broadcast on YouTube and stuff I watch with my wife.

      YouTube has literally anything you could want in visual content.

      If you’re having problem keeping your attention span focused, maybe go see a doctor or therapist for adhd or something? Because there is so much shit on YouTube that you should 100% be able to find content to suit you.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I watch documentaries on youtube 30-60 min on avg

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• dbilitated@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  honestly i will watch westworld once, but i never use my netflix account but i watch stuff like physics lectures and chemistry videos all the time. i just find it fascinating, in a way scripted TV isn’t for me.

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• regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d pay more for YouTube rather than HBO/Netflix. There’s much more content that interests me on YouTube.

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