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Comment by jonatron | Hacker News Reader

These days this would be in a video with a clickbait thumbnail with someone shouting at you after a VPN sponsor ad.

Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. I love these kinds of articles (and wrote a few back in the day), but it's hard to see YouTube as a regression.

If this was a few years ago, I would argue it breaks indexability but today it would automatically get transcribed anyway. Though I still find reading a page like this more practical than watching a video except when eating as watching a video becomes easier then.

I much prefer reading with some photos and maybe a video than just tedious half hour videos about minutiae to pad out a monetization quota.

Not at all. Loss of this content seems like an obvious regression.

>"Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. ... it's hard to see YouTube as a regression."

Doing something purely for fun vs doing something with the expectation of profit is the big difference - it is essentially the difference between work and play.

I followed the link to the follow-on material. The domain name had changed hands and you WON'T BELIEVE what they're now doing with it!

a 10:03 video

starting with "don't forget to smash that like button and ring that bell"

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