YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by InefficientRed on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:31AM (#31946905)

Same. It's probably a generational thing, with the split at maybe 20 or something where video became both searchable and trivial in terms of bandwidth.

But, to be fair, the Google-as-front-door internet has become totally useless for these types of tasks as well. Those wiki-style pages with huge walls of text offering nonsense advice are a plague.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by lotsofpulp on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:37AM (#31946984)

Yes, I filter out all that garbage too, but because it is text, I can filter it out 100x faster than video.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by InefficientRed on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:30PM (#31953845)

If you don't mind explaining: how? I constantly find myself on those (very heavy) pages and haven't found a good way to avoid them except to restrict my search to certain domains (SO, Reddit, etc.)

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by lotsofpulp on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:42AM (#31958544)

I guess it is mostly heuristics learned over a couple decades. I use an ad blocker (Wipr), so if there are problems loading the page, that is a flag. If it looks like an SEO churned out page with lots of links and poor sentence structure, another flag.

A lot of times, you do end up on Reddit and SO, but there are some good forums available if you dig deep, especially for car/HVAC/home maintenance related stuff. Sometimes you have to join a forum and post a question.

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