• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.

      I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 hours ago

      This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask

      But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.

      • underisk@lemmy.ml
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        1 hour ago

        I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.