What's good about Mentour Pilot is he reads and interprets the NTSB reports and the reports from other relevant agencies, and also adds what his own experience as a 737 pilot tells him.

I've often found that means his reports conflict in various ways regarding either what happened, or what caused what happened, with what is found in so many other reconstructions, many of which seem to goes as deep as a Wikipedia article and not a whole lot further.

I find he provides a ton of insight then...

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.

YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.

That's also a reason to avoid it, to be honest... any time a publisher becomes closer to a medium than a publisher we're in trouble!

Everyone here is right.

"Books" don't get a cut of all book sales, whereas YouTube gets a cut of all video profits. "Books" don't have editorial control over what goes in them, YouTube does. It's clearly closer to a publisher than a medium. Maybe you meant platform instead of medium?

Er, (parent here), I'd say it's more like "never buy books at the airport bookstore" rather than "never read books."

Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!)

There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.

YouTube now provide a setting to change the speed of a video. This means you can decrease or increase the speed to meet your viewing requirements.

Reading material quickly remains more comfortable than watching a sped-up video. There are many cases in which written material is a better way to transfer information than video.

A case in point would be this article, as it is clearly written, balanced and very digestible.

> ”It's up to you to filter out content you dislike”

YouTube’s algorithm is pretty good at doing this for you!

Er, at doing the inverse, for me.

"Oh, you're watching a video on foo? Here's a list of video clickbait trash, with sometimes one more video on foo thrown in.

"Oh, you either never open or always bail out of 'shorts'? Here are more of them!"

Are you actually signed in? I get all the trash if I'm using anonymous browsing or whatever, but not when it knows who I am.

The "Shorts" section can be hidden pretty easily.

When I'm signed in, it's the same except that it also sometimes suggests somewhere in the list next to a video that's playing a single video that I watched a while ago.

For me, YouTube hasn't been able to suggest properly for years; ages ago, suggestions were all clearly related to the current video in some way. The old behaviour lead me to spend lots of time on YouTube.

When "Shorts" started appearing on the main page, it somehow seemed like I couldn't get rid of it. I somehow don't want to see it ever, on any computer so it being default is as evil to me as blinking ads.

The addition of forced-autoplay-unless-you-sign-in[1] is definitely a case of Making It Suck[2].

So, I increasingly use other clients, or exclude YouTube results from searches. This pretty well gets me away from clickbait rubbish like "$profession doesn't want you to know this!!", grossly exagerated faces/postures, and Shorts.

[1] Welll… actually I guess it's "default to autoplay whether signed in or not, and keep resetting it if you're not signed in".

[2] Meaning, moving people towards what another behaviour by making something else more difficult.

Maybe you aren't signed in enough for it to have learned your preferences? You can also click the "..." button on a video's thumbnail and select "not interested" or "don't recommend this channel" on content you don't like, which in my experience is very effective at improving future recommendations.

I also get annoyed by the Shorts section (they're almost pure clickbait/teasers, addictive but no real content, waste of my time!). But I can just click the "X" and it disappears for 30 days. If they didn't have the "close for 30 days" option, I agree, this would really suck.

Nothing weird about it. I don’t watch Youtube except the rare cases, and when I have to I download videos. I can't stand getting interrupted for ads during watching so I opted out of youtube completely.

Nice! I love that kind of video. So much to learn. For the Frenchies out there, former navy fighter pilot Até does a great job as well in the same vein: https://www.youtube.com/c/ATECHUETTOPGUN2SPEAKER/videos