• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    When ads get in the way I simply don’t watch the videos. It’s not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.

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      1 day ago

      Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.

      But I’ll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I’ll archive important content in the meantime.

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        1 day ago

        I pay for nebula, they have a lot of educational content and the price is low enough that I don’t mind it

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          23 hours ago

          Sounds good, but if I search “microwave repair” or “improve vo2max” , it comes up with zero results.

          That’s the sort of stuff we’d lose if creators don’t move away from YouTube. 😟

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            8 hours ago

            Thats true, I once had to repair my washing machine and I could only find 1 video about the same model and same repair. It was a large Russian man that I could not understand (this was before auto generated subtitles).

            Anyways, I just looked at the video and copied everything he did and I fixed my machine.