In my humble opinion, I think the "monetization" of youtube videos has produced a marketplace of clickbait and extreme content.

I'd like to roll back the clock to when youtube itself took all (or at least most) of its advertising income from its users' videos.

I mean, it's not hard to avoid clickbait or poor quality content. I'd say that without the prospect of earning money a lot of quality content wouldn't exist. Of course wherever there's income there will be people trying to exploit it, but I think that YouTube wouldn't be what it is today if content creators didn't get paid.

> 1) Wait, does DuckDuckGo use Bing’s search index?

They do what a company called metacrawler did back in the 90's (and I see still does now) but w/o the privacy angle and whatever other bells and whistles DDG adds. It also crawls but I don't know what percentage of that makes up the index. Generally I don't believe it's a very large part from memory.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-seo/252165/#c...

On (1), I always wondered how DuckDuckGo's search works. I just run some queries on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. For long tail queries the DuckDuckGo's and Bing's results are almost identical.

DDG's statement on their sources is that they have over 400: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1

But that is largely with respect to "answers" type responses, which they are not lifting from Bing. Search results come from partners "including" Oath/Yahoo and Bing. And I think Yahoo uses Bing. But I know that DDG uses Yandex sometimes as well, so there's probably a handful of potential sources they draw from for search.

Yeah, I love how he basically admits in public that DDG is just a skin on Bing.