Fair comment John, and I appreciate your concern
I probably am getting more intolerant, from a reasonably high starting point.
But in this case that is down to outrage at the enshittification of Youtube, which I guess many people don’t even notice.
I’ve been using it as useful resource for a long, long time. IMO it is only relatively recently, that the number of idiots posting has exploded (influencers who have always been idiots IMO excluded).
Before if you wanted to know how to use a, say power tool, an expert or several experts would have very informative videos on how to do so.
They’d have a little plug for their company or whatever in the video. If you liked their stuff you subscribed to their channel. If you really liked it you might even pay them a small amount or a inexpensive subscription through Patreon (as I still do for some).
But the greedy bastards at Alphabet weren’t happy. So the T&Cs changed. Without having wasted too much time researching, it seems to me that Alphabet (Google) pay now on clicks and stickiness (the longer you watch the more ads they can be bombarded you with). Hence the preamble, the bullshit and at last the “reveal”… “press button B”
So quality of the videos has tanked as every halfwit tries to cash in.
Does Alphabet care, quality is nothing, clicks are everything.
What amuses me in all this, I might start a thread, is the building anger at the avaricious, amoral crowd that run X, Meta, Google etc.
First of all they are not tech companies, they are advertising companies.
An nauseam investigations, fines, court cases etc. are not the way to control them, They are fleet of foot and politicians tend to be stupid. Too late, too little, too ineffective.
Advertising licences totally at the discretion the Government are a potential solution. That’s a strategy that should be adopted Worldwide.
If Facebook was banned from advertising in the EU for a month Zuckerberg would piss himself
We shouldn’t be fining these people, we should put them out of business if they don’t comply with our laws.