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Being an ignorant abut u-tube and other post styles...
Is is OK to ask and not getting flamed ??
Why are wast majority of u-tube preceded with advertisements ?
Is that u-tube "normal" ?
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Because Alphabet is broke. /s
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How is any "free" web site financed?
1) On your tax bill
2) By you paying a premium when buying other goods. For some products, more than 70% of the total product cost is TV commercials. (That figure is from the days when TV commercials dominated over web commercials, but I doubt that it is much lower today.)
One bad thing is that even if you do not watch those TV productions, or access those info sites, financed by the premium on the product price you pay, you still have to pay for them. In my childhood (in Norway), there were no TV ads to pay, so that cost wasn't added to any product price. My parents did pay a yearly TV license fee, but when I moved out, I saved that expense - I never owned a TV set. But as commercial TV stations took over the scene, with lots of TV ads, every time I buy a product advertised on TV some of the money I pay goes to finance the shows on the commercial TV and web channels where it is advertised.
The only way to avoid paying for a TV channel that you do not watch is to never buy anything advertised on that channel. (Problem: How do you know, without watching the channel?) If you don't want to pay for a 'free' web site, you must stop buying anything advertised on that web site. So, before you decide to personally block a web site, make sure to take notes of which products are advertised there, and stop buying them. If you don't stop buying them, then you will continue to finance that web site that you have decided to block.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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jana_hus wrote: Is that u-tube "normal" ?
Yes.
And it's the main reason that YouTube declared war on adblockers a year or so ago. The ad blockers keep working round them though, and I hear - though it's difficult to get actual numbers - that use of adblockers has become higher since the war was declared, with more people using them than before the war started ... probably not the intent!
I run an ad blocker, and will white list "good sites" - ones that are ad financed, but not greedy. CP is whitelisted for that reason. Youtube is not - any site that shows a "blocked ads count" of 50+ on a single page isn't going to get a whitelist from me! 
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OK, just for my education.
There are u-tube posts whose " explain " task in kindergarten level, ... it works better when you plug it in ... just "generating / taking more space / time " . How do these "free lance / self proclaimed experts in anything get payed?
My guess is nobody bothers to actually verify these "u-tube university" experts.
Free enterprise at "caveat emptor " level.
Thanks
PS
I sure like to hear from professional teachers, folks who make a living actually teaching, at any level...
but I may be pushing my flaming free streak....
cheers
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jana_hus wrote: My guess is nobody bothers to actually verify these "u-tube university" experts.
YouTube is not a University forum, but Your "tube" channel - as its name suggests. A place for "anyone" to present their own videos.
You are asking for a sort of censorship based on an idea that "someone" must know what is right and what is wrong. I am sort of skeptical to that very idea. Some people start their "Social" channels, proclaiming it to deliver the "Truth", according to their own concept of "Truth". I do not trust that "Truth" very much, to be honest.
I don't even trust research reports from recognized universities or research institution to always convey truth. Even if it may be "true" in some sense, it can very well be quite biased, both in the information selected for presentation, and how the presentation is made. Your hope for true, unbiased, university level 100% reliable information (well, you didn't make all those requirements  ) as the only stuff to come through the YouTube censorship is, unfortunately(?) somewhat naïve.
There are no doubt a huge number of mediocre or outright bad "explanations" on YouTube. I very rarely find any useful there. Also, the photography and editing is often even worse than the contents. Wikipedia is similar: Lots of the explanations aren't worth a lot (although Wikipedia is not as bad as YouTube). Here as well: Editing is often far below par, and the writers frequently doesn't master their language very well.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: Some people start their "Social" channels, proclaiming it to deliver the "Truth", according to their own concept of "Truth".
"Some"?
To my mind that means to some extent a 'small' number.
Rather certain that many channels are extolling that something is better than others.
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You find a few religious people who declare that they know The Universal Truth. Maybe you will one day run across a politician of a similar conviction - any sufficiently demagogical politics is indistinguishable from religion, as the saying goes.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: that they know The Universal Truth
And home repair.
And cooking
And skin care
And work outs
And just weird stuff about health care
And pets
And even the how to write code.
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Sometimes, in long videos, YouTube insert commercial breaks in the middle of the presentation. When I experience this, I immediately interrupt, and start a download of the video: In all cases where I have done this, the downloaded video is uninterrupted, no commercial break.
And then: There is a similar race between YouTube and download software. Every now and then, I want to download videos, but it fails (while other videos download fine). If I update my downloader, it might successfully download. The more outdated the downloader, the more videos it fails to download.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: When I experience this, I immediately interrupt, and start a download of the video: In all cases where I have done this, the downloaded video is uninterrupted, no commercial break.
I suspect that at some point YT will start embedding their own ads into the original video, so even the stream you download will contain those ads. I'm sure this'll be dynamic so the ads you see will still be tailored to what "the algo" thinks match your interests.
There's already some of that; some content authors embed their own ads in their own videos...typically, YT will put up a banner that says "this content includes paid promotions". Which really means somebody paid for those promotions, but in those cases the money didn't go to YT.
Then the best is when those paid ads themselves get interrupted mid-sentence by YT's own ads...
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dandy72 wrote: I suspect that at some point YT will start embedding their own ads into the original video
First time I downloaded a YT video with 'commercial breaks', I was prepared for loading it into a video editor to chop out the ads. I was delighted to discover that it wasn't necessary.
If I spend half an hour or more to see a YT video, it is because I find it important. Maybe I will even keep the video in my private archive for the future. If YT starts embedding videos that way, I may think it worth the effort do edit out the commercials before putting the video into the archive.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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A classic for sure.
I'm gonna have to re-watch that movie at some point.
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I am thankful for our troops, but I often think of this song regarding the consequences of war.
Bob Dylan - John Brown - YouTube[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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True, as is Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Official Audio) - YouTube[^], sadly.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But the troops have been sent there and have to survive and have little opportunity to think about a Bob Dylan song 
I am ashamed that others risk their lives for 'me'.
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Yes, they've been sent in harms way unfortunately, a time when this is unnecessary, it seems is a delusional thought.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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"Me" in quotes is right, because they risk their lives for deranged neocons, something that has long been bipartisan.
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'They' risk/spend their lives in ww2 when I was not yet alive. And I thank all of them 
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True, though WW2 likely wouldn't have occurred if the US hadn't intervened in WW1, tipped a stalemate to the Allies, who imposed draconian war reparations on Germany, leading to the Weimar hyperinflation and the rise of Hitler.
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do not be ashamed. you misunderstand being blessed.
There are men who go into dark places and make the evil fear, and for sure there is evil. And the evil needs to be put down.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Where do I enlist? Catchy Tune. Must investigate AC/DC.
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