On 2025/8/10 18:49:30, Marcus@invalid.com wrote:

Even such videos as Judge Judy have a clickbait preview of something interesting which is not in the video when watched.

About the only videos that aren't clickbait these days are the videos of animals killing animals. Youtube has been pretty much been taken over by
the sickos.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait
click·?bait 'klik-?bat
: something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest

It is difficult to remember a time when you could scroll through the
social media outlet of your choice and not be bombarded with: You'll
never believe what happened when … This is the cutest thing ever … This the biggest mistake you can make … Take this quiz to see which character you are on … They are all classic clickbait models.

I know what you mean, but I don't find it that bad (certainly for free).
I certainly recognise your list in your final paragraph - as things to
avoid on YouTube, rather than social media (which I use little). I've
just brought up my YouTube home page, and of the first 12 suggestions,
only two have arrows instead of durations in their bottom right; of the remaining 10, most are things I might click on, though I'd probably give
the two cat ones a miss. Of course, I don't know which ones would have
an ad. on their beginning, but I accept those as the cost of getting it
free; quite often the skip button is present.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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Even such videos as Judge Judy have a clickbait preview of something interesting which is not in the video when watched.

About the only videos that aren't clickbait these days are the videos of animals killing animals. Youtube has been pretty much been taken over by
the sickos.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait
click·?bait 'klik-?bat
: something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest

It is difficult to remember a time when you could scroll through the
social media outlet of your choice and not be bombarded with: You'll
never believe what happened when … This is the cutest thing ever … This
the biggest mistake you can make … Take this quiz to see which character
you are on … They are all classic clickbait models.

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:03:26 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
wrote:

On 2025/8/10 18:49:30, Marcus@invalid.com wrote:

Even such videos as Judge Judy have a clickbait preview of something
interesting which is not in the video when watched.

About the only videos that aren't clickbait these days are the videos of
animals killing animals. Youtube has been pretty much been taken over by
the sickos.
-----
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait
click·?bait 'klik-?bat
: something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest

It is difficult to remember a time when you could scroll through the
social media outlet of your choice and not be bombarded with: You'll
never believe what happened when … This is the cutest thing ever … This
the biggest mistake you can make … Take this quiz to see which character
you are on … They are all classic clickbait models.

I know what you mean, but I don't find it that bad (certainly for free).
I certainly recognise your list in your final paragraph - as things to
avoid on YouTube, rather than social media (which I use little). I've
just brought up my YouTube home page, and of the first 12 suggestions,
only two have arrows instead of durations in their bottom right; of the >remaining 10, most are things I might click on, though I'd probably give
the two cat ones a miss. Of course, I don't know which ones would have
an ad. on their beginning, but I accept those as the cost of getting it
free; quite often the skip button is present.

I ain't bitch'n about the ads except when Google insists that a Youtube
video must have ads in the middle of even a music video. That's
ridiculous greed and lttle else.

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On 2025/8/10 19:9:6, Marcus@invalid.com wrote:

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I ain't bitch'n about the ads except when Google insists that a Youtube
video must have ads in the middle of even a music video. That's
ridiculous greed and lttle else.

On the whole, the music videos I watch don't - but then I rarely watch
ones over 4 minutes; maybe that's the difference between us. I do find
them interrupting longer clips (but even then they're usually either
short, or have a skip button once the yellow line gets to the right).
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:16:40 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
wrote:

On 2025/8/10 19:9:6, Marcus@invalid.com wrote:

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I ain't bitch'n about the ads except when Google insists that a Youtube
video must have ads in the middle of even a music video. That's
ridiculous greed and lttle else.

On the whole, the music videos I watch don't - but then I rarely watch
ones over 4 minutes; maybe that's the difference between us. I do find
them interrupting longer clips (but even then they're usually either
short, or have a skip button once the yellow line gets to the right).

My final word on this: I understand Google/Youtube is allowed to
"charge" for their service. However, I think that Google - as in many
other ways, has gone too far in their overwhelming greed for the dollar.

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