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0 pointsdylan6044mo ago0 comments

Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those?

Definitely says something about your age though complaining about video versions of anything. Kids today don't even know what Google's search page looks like. They search in YouTube, TikTok type apps first. Since the location bar has also become the search bar while theGoogs pays browsers to be the default search, lots of people are not even aware they are doing a google search.

Also, some people will try things that are technically above their abilities normally. Having a video typing the commands in can be easier for them to replicate as it'll look just like the video. Text only from some webpage won't have those visual clues.

I much prefer text for this stuff too, but at least I can understand why something else is preferred by someone not me. I might be elder, but I'm not obstinate

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saghm4mo ago

Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing". I'm not claiming that there can't possibly be a reason that videos might work better for some people, but I don't think you've made a particularly strong case that you understand their mindset rather than judging them under the guise of claiming that I was the one doing that.

Supermancho4mo ago

> Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing".

Not an argument. It's an explanation. Stop with the antagonism.

dylan604OP4mo ago

No, you're old man yells at clouds with the entire comment. Someone likes something you don't prefer, and want to share that with the internet. That's great, but you have to know that someone will call you out on it.

Some people like blue, some people like red. Some people like audiobooks, some prefer reading actual books. Some people like to go to movie theaters, some prefer to wait for the movie to watch at home. Some people like cilantro.

The internet is a big place. There's room for multiple ways of skinning the cat without preventing any of the other ways.

151554mo ago

Video format is objectively lower bandwidth (information-density-wise) than text regardless of age.

Yeul4mo ago

That assumes that how young people use the internet is inherently better than how we use it.

I can get the same information only without the ads and parasocial relationships with content creators. Not making anyone money!

ycombinete4mo ago

This was a good comment until it suddenly became bizarrely insulting in the last paragraph.

dylan604OP4mo ago

I don't feel I was insulting at all. If you feel obstinate is an insulting word I really don't know how to respond as anything else will probably feel as an attack on you now. I guess I could have said non-empathetic, but we're not talking about feelings so much as valid reasons someone prefers A over B.

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0 pointsdylan6044mo ago0 comments

Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those?

I much prefer text for this stuff too, but at least I can understand why something else is preferred by someone not me. I might be elder, but I'm not obstinate

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saghm4mo ago

Supermancho4mo ago

> Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing".

Not an argument. It's an explanation. Stop with the antagonism.

dylan604OP4mo ago

The internet is a big place. There's room for multiple ways of skinning the cat without preventing any of the other ways.

151554mo ago

Video format is objectively lower bandwidth (information-density-wise) than text regardless of age.

Yeul4mo ago

That assumes that how young people use the internet is inherently better than how we use it.

I can get the same information only without the ads and parasocial relationships with content creators. Not making anyone money!

ycombinete4mo ago

This was a good comment until it suddenly became bizarrely insulting in the last paragraph.

dylan604OP4mo ago

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