Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re watching lectures from someone who talks really slow.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Slop comment aside, a lot of people with ADHD listen to videos at 1.5x or more speed because that’s how their brain works.

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I watch a bunch of channels that are mostly talking and are 20+ minutes. I always put it on 1.5x speed and its barely noticeable and you get used to it. It saves me time without any loss of what was being shown so I consider it a win.

    1 question, this feature already exists for non paying costumers, does this mean its going to be a pay for option only soon? That will piss me off…

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    • Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was thinking they’d cap the free speed up at either 1.5 or 2, but I don’t know

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it trains your brain to be even more impatient and when you talk to people in real life, you will think everyone is slow and annoying.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i usually just skips the part if they drone on and on.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That makes faster playback a disability affordance, for legal reasons

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    1.5x is totally legitimate but Youtube advertises 4x speed. They put 4x speed behind a paywall. That‘s ridiculous.

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• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Try watching videos by “explaining computers”. Actually pretty good content (mostly on single board computers like raspberry pi), but he talks glacially. Normally I watch at 1.5x, this channel is one of just a few where I need to up it to 2x.

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I usually just skip to the part where he reveals the price of the amazingly cheap sbc, then click off when it’s definitely not cheap.

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    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah I actually do care about the technical details, and that’s the reason I watch the video. I can look up the price in like 3s myself and didn’t need a video for that part.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When you think about it, it’s not really that different from learning to read faster, which is a valued skill.

  (There’s an argument to be made that for many things you’d be better off reading rather than watching YouTube vids at 4x but let’s not focus on that.)

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• CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tutorials where they are going through stuff you 90% understand already and you just need to find that juicy remaining 10%.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have you seen people who complain about written jnfo his video info? Its because they can read thr info faster than listening to it be said. But if you speed it up to 2x or 3x then it becomes the same as reading in terms of time. You get used to it over time. I can’t listen to anything at 1x speed anymore.

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve thought about dipping my toes into this but I don’t want to start getting antsy when people talk IRL

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do NOT do it. I dont think the time saved is worth it. It hasnt changed irl stuff for me but any media feels painfully slow. I had to listen to a 1hr video conference with a group on 1x speed and I felt like I was being tortured. I had to refocused myself every sentence because i couldn’t hold attention on sentences that were being said so slowly.

      If you want to consume info fast then reading is way better.

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      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is me but backwards sort of. Media has always been painfully slow for me and it wasn’t until I found the playback speed settings that I could tolerate watching most things. ADHD is wild.

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