Sick of YouTube trying to force us into their paid YouTube Red service? Cramming you with ads, especially ads from Prager U? Stopping longer videos halfway through with an “are you still watching?” button, and the same with playlists?
WELL I AM! I’m trying out Vimeo, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tune-in, as alternatives, I must get un-hooked on YouTube.
Catch up on the chatter at cupofjim.com.
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Another problem with YouTube is that Facebook is really squashing YouTube’s visibility on that platform. Often, no preview will appear when you post a link in a response to someone else’s post. And if you post a link from YouTube on directly on your Facebook page, it gets almost no visibility or engagement. FB wants to force people to upload videos directly to FB. But if you do that, you can’t share your video with people outside the FB universe. Just one of the many things that makes using FB frustrating these days…
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The continuing march towards monetization, by the few who manage to profit more and more from our ever depreciating content.
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