Zen Traveler Posted September 11, 2023 Author Share Posted September 11, 2023 9 minutes ago, RealMarkDeneen said: I think of YouTube as the best kind of TV. Considering how crappy streaming services are, and how useless cable TV is, it's the only decent alternative. But no, I won't pay for it! I agree. No streaming service or cable here either and we don't pay for YouTube. Otoh, that means we're the product! 😮 So far I'm good with it but I do wonder... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zen Traveler Posted September 11, 2023 Author Share Posted September 11, 2023 37 minutes ago, OO1 said: Youtube's main engine runs on paid ads There do appear to be various paid subscriptions to YouTube but truthfully the ads are short and most can be skipped. WAY less than other free content. Heck, the link dtel provided at ads all over the place. On YouTube they're 8 seconds and are predictable....On that note, it does get sinister when you consider how they get the ad streams. 🤐 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealMarkDeneen Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Zen Traveler said: I agree. No streaming service or cable here either and we don't pay for YouTube. Otoh, that means we're the product! 😮 So far I'm good with it but I do wonder... I think we're always the product.........🤢 But that's just modern life. I think of YT as "world television." I am nonetheless concerned about their censorship policies and actions. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tube fanatic Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 For me it is the best source of free religious and gospel music videos around. Maynard 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 You Tube is making Google fabulously wealthy. I still can't believe the powers that be let that purchase go through. JJK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealMarkDeneen Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 17 minutes ago, JJkizak said: You Tube is making Google fabulously wealthy. I still can't believe the powers that be let that purchase go through. JJK Since about 1992 "global corporate consolidation" - has been the universally accepted economic engine in all western countries AFAICS. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the real Duke Spinner Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 UTuve has censored and DeMonitized severall Content Creators that I personally know Diverse fields/ topics... CE FA and Preppernurse1 Fvkk UTube Rumble is where it's at. ,🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gilbert Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 On 9/10/2023 at 11:08 AM, Zen Traveler said: We've discussed Facebook algorithms before and I'm curious how much YouTube influences your life? 🤔 Way, way, waaaaaay less than 6 hours/wk. More in-line with 30 to 60min. a month. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 What's with the Real(name)? Makes me wonder if next, we'll start seeing the RealReal(name). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 You may well want to watch some of Dr. E. Scott you tubes Zen, if interested in biblical topics...RIP... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Gilbert said: Way, way, waaaaaay less than 6 hours/wk. More in-line with 30 to 60min. a month. I was like that several years ago and then after subscribing got down interesting pigeon holes. Mostly travel and then documentaries, and now historical religious studies along the rest. 1 hour ago, Jeff Matthews said: What's with the Real(name)? Makes me wonder if next, we'll start seeing the RealReal(name). The last one had a reputation so he had to distance himself from it/him...Dunno but both of you guys are more subdued. Must be retirement. 😎 Good to see everyone posting and hope all is well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 7:35 AM, Zen Traveler said: There are several great live-cams from Amsterdam but this is the most mesmerizing. Years ago, I used to watch 3 live cams that were in three parts of downtown Belfast, my home town. Sometimes, if I had stayed up late, I'd pull up one particular one and watch the sunrise in Belfast, in real time, five hours before the sun rose in Toronto. It was a small thing, but it made the city seem a bit less distant for a few minutes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Islander said: ...I'd pull up one particular one and watch the sunrise in Belfast, in real time, five hours before the sun rose in Toronto. It was a small thing, but it made the city seem a bit less distant for a few minutes. Yeah, I also enjoy realizing the time difference between Texas and my European webcams...There's also some live walks in Amsterdam and various recently filmed ones in the Jungfrau Region of Switzerland. Ha! I watch all of this several times a week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the real Duke Spinner Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 1:02 PM, RealMarkDeneen said: I think we're always the product.........🤢 But that's just modern life. I think of YT as "world television." I am nonetheless concerned about their censorship policies and actions. I several friends that have been censored numerous times They are diverse channels Prepping, Law, Guitars. 🙄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 12 hours ago, the real Duke Spinner said: On 9/11/2023 at 12:02 PM, RealMarkDeneen said: I think we're always the product.........🤢 But that's just modern life. I think of YT as "world television." I am nonetheless concerned about their censorship policies and actions. I several friends that have been censored numerous times They are diverse channels Prepping, Law, Guitars. 🙄 What are they being censored for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealMarkDeneen Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 9/12/2023 at 10:09 AM, Jeff Matthews said: What's with the Real(name)? Makes me wonder if next, we'll start seeing the RealReal(name). Just a whim when I resigned up last year. As if..."that old guy is gone....here's the new REAL one." Perhaps just a joke to myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealMarkDeneen Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Zen Traveler said: What are they being censored for? Pretty much anything and everyone that challenges, contradicts, rebutts, or debunks the ongoing social-control narrative for western civilization. Now that the same 'screen' can be seen by all eight billion people, consolidation to a single narrative was inevitable. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 1 hour ago, RealMarkDeneen said: Pretty much anything and everyone that challenges, contradicts, rebutts, or debunks the ongoing social-control narrative for western civilization. Now that the same 'screen' can be seen by all eight billion people, consolidation to a single narrative was inevitable. I guess my position is I saw what basically pre/non-censorship brought us and I'm happier with the alternative...Once you think we've reached balance AI comes along. Oh, well. Watched about 3 hours of YouTube already today. 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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