With so much AI slop on YouTube, it's no longer safe to give videos the benefit of the doubt. Always check

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8. Googletube is just another brick in the wall

of the googly empire. I've been avoiding it for years. Damn straight gaggle is spying on the users, for a variety of reasons, mainly commercial, but increasingly political.

Big Google Is Watching! With the processing power of its data surveillance farms, Federal cases will be built against protestors by linking statements in gmail and gchat to watching certain (possibly bait) videos on the tube.

Plus a host of other reasons to avoid videos which I sum up as "life is too short for utube". I can scan a block of text in seconds for a gist rather than waste half an hour listening to some geek blather about what he's going to show you in just a minute but first these ads... Complete with garish yellow circles lines and arrows (thank you Arlo)

In some very rare cases it's worth watching video.