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Can you live without YouTube ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Many of those information are also available in other places. When I need to fix something, I'm usually able to find what I need on the web (manuals, blog posts, etc) before resorting to searching youtube videos on how to do it. Some truly niche stuff are only available on youtube though (e.g. some dude filming himself doing his niche job), but I can count on one hand the instances I needed one of those.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The video makes it so much faster and easier to understand. Plus the top comments usually have supplemental information that helps. If you didn't use YouTube then you would still use another Google entity to find it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you didn’t use YouTube then you would still use another Google entity to find it.

The thing is I don't use google anymore to search these days now that other search engines noticeably produce better results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Which search engines produce better results than Google?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Someone actually did a comparison recently. Pretty interesting if you got the time to read it: https://danluu.com/seo-spam/ . tldr: google and bing bad.

There is also a recent study by researchers on Leipzig University that confirm google is getting worse : https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

[–] Rolando 2 points 7 months ago

I'm not comment-OP, but when I use a VPN, google insists on making me do captchas before letting me search. So I just started using duckduckgo because it's usually "good enough."

Sure, by some metrics google is probably still better, but I'd rather not waste my time training their AIs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Many of those information are also available in other places.

with the death of forums and the rest of the internet, for most things, not anymore.

[–] fxt_ryknow 2 points 7 months ago

With AI absolutely exploding... It's very easy to ask for step by step directions to accomplish things. AI clearly still needs to mature... But... The times I've asked it for some basic, step by step directions, it's been effective.

While I don't disagree videos make a lot of things easier (I for sure am a visual learning, no question), the step by step instructions for things I've gotten have been good, and very easy to follow.