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A comment on Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?.

Re:Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically? by NoMAD76 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @09:02AM (#32331131)
The moment a platform start the "monetization war" and have some "influencers" working for them and get traction... that moment will kill/bury original and honest content made from passion and not "to make a living, to win $".

The same way blogs died long ago, remember all the craze about having a blog, affiliate links, earn a living blabla

People jumped in.. and so advertisers.. and so 'they killed Kenny"

Imagine YT videos without ads (ok, buy a premium but.. the trash is still there just wihout ads), so it's not a solution, not anymore.

I just stopped watching YT, I just try to find articles and read them, using adblockers and imagine what: I disabled all images in Firefox, too much distraction.

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Re:Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically? by bluGill on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:10AM (#32331894)
If only I can find articles. There are a lot of people who know how to do something interesting, but they are not writing articles they are recording videos. I prefer written articles, but often I can't find anything, but I can find videos on youtube. Or maybe it is just that search for articles has the same problem?
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