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[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 283 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What with the weird freebooting article? This ‘article’ is just a description of Alec’s video with the clickbait cranked up to ten. Gotta love a major corporation using small creators’ work for free ad revenue…

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 167 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You could add the link so people don't contribute to ad revenue if you feel strongly! https://youtu.be/zsA3X40nz9w 💜

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Someone already had, but good point.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm fairly sure that the image is even a screenshot from the video. Uncredited I notice.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is, I just watched the video an hour or so ago.

edit: In fact, until I read this thread, I didn't notice the URL and thought this was a link to the video.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

That’s what pissed me off the most.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's enough YouTube videos just recapping an article. But I agree it's lazy

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they mean the same thing happens alot in reverse: YT vids about news articles. Not wrong, but whataboutist.

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

also not relevant to Alex's content either.

[–] pbbananaman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This is how hackaday posts have been… for like a decade. I guess it’s somewhere between articles and link aggregator.

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tbf I hate watching videos, so I found it useful.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Doesn’t mean this is good content I think belongs here. The original video that links to a transcript and a source article do belong here. You want a description cause you don’t want to watch it? go feed the link into chat got. Or ask in the comments. I’m gonna call out corpo freebooting bullshit when I see it and it doesn’t belong on lemmy.

Sorry, I’m pissy rn.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Damn! I never even thought about sending it YouTube links. I might try doing that with some of those "retrospective" videos that are hours long.

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago

Sure, that’s a fair opinion. I just don’t share it. I wouldn’t have known about this video in the first place. Also I don’t care to use AI summaries.

Coincidentally I was also a fan of the described functionality on batteries and I have used it gladly and without hurting myself. So that clearly makes me different from the vast majority of people here in the comments.

I may have been just as happy with the original article the video is based on, who knows. But since that wasn’t shared here I preferred this one over the video.