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6:10Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
7.1M views • 7 years ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt addresses whether viewers can trust its videos, describing its research process and how it handles older videos with errors or overstated claims.
10:48Patreon CEO on Content Policy, Lauren Southern, and IGD
112K views • 9 years ago
JackConteExtras
Patreon CEO Jack Conte explains how Patreon thinks about content policy and why it removed the pages of Lauren Southern, members of Defend Europe and IGD. He also describes the company's trust and safety commitments.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
19:23Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
15.1M views • 10 years ago
LastWeekTonight
A Last Week Tonight segment on the decline of the newspaper industry and what it means for journalism, including local reporting. It uses John Oliver's comedic commentary and references the film Spotlight.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
15:47VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
1M views • 9 years ago
Folding Ideas
Folding Ideas uses the rise and fall of the YouTube competitor VidMe to examine why platforms are not friends to creators. It argues that alternatives to big platforms tend to attract the users banned from the original and lack a core vision.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
19:00Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
13.8M views • 9 years ago
LastWeekTonight
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of US local TV stations, and how it injects political content and scripted must-run segments into local news.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
13:18Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
16.6M views • 12 years ago
LastWeekTonight
John Oliver's 13-minute Last Week Tonight segment explains the 2014 net neutrality fight over cable companies creating unequal internet speeds. It uses comedy to make a dull regulatory topic engaging and tells viewers how to comment to the FCC.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
5:02How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
10M views • 11 years ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos. It describes how this harms independent creators.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
17:19Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail
860K views • 3 years ago
Benn Jordan
Benn Jordan argues that Spotify's business model undermines the music it sells, using streaming payout figures and the economics for artists and labels.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
10:02China's Bicycle sharing WENT INSANE!
525K views • 9 years ago
serpentza
An expat YouTuber in China shows how dockless bike-sharing, once loved, has been flooded by competing companies. Bikes pile up, get abandoned in odd places and are vandalised, with footage from around the city.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
9:30Jonathan Blow on scripting languages
185K views • 7 years ago
Jeru Sanders
A 10-minute clip from a Jonathan Blow Twitch stream in which he argues that game engines do not really need separate scripting languages. He questions the value of embedded interpreters when the main language can do the job.
Topic match · Programming language design
8:34Facebook Freebooting - Smarter Every Day 128
905K views • 11 years ago
SmarterEveryDay
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explains 'Facebook freebooting', where Facebook users re-upload YouTubers' videos natively and the original creators lose views and revenue. He describes his own attempts to get Facebook to act.
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7:17Apple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs.
1.6M views • 8 years ago
Louis Rossmann
Louis Rossmann describes US Customs seizing replacement MacBook batteries at Apple's behest, while Apple refuses to supply the batteries to authorized service providers. It is part of his right-to-repair advocacy.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
8:14How Google is building a browser monopoly
456K views • 7 years ago
TechAltar
TechAltar's eight-minute video arguing that Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer as Google leverages its browser position. It covers anti-competitive behavior toward other browsers like Firefox and Edge and the role of Chromium.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
14:30I have some things to say - Core i9 & X299
2.8M views • 9 years ago
Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips' rant on Intel's X299 platform and Core i9 launch, criticizing how Intel segments the market by limiting PCIe lanes and charging for features like VROC keys.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
9:11How The Banks Bought Bitcoin | Lightning Network
184K views • 8 years ago
Decentralized Thought
A 2017 video arguing that banks and Blockstream steered Bitcoin toward the Lightning Network. It is partisan commentary from the Bitcoin Cash side of the scaling dispute.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
8:45Racket: Why I Think It’s a Great Language, and Why I’m Not Using It Anymore
19K views • 5 years ago
Leandro Facchinetti
Leandro Facchinetti explains why he thinks Racket is a great language and why he stopped using it. He describes his backstory and experiences with the Racket community.
Topic match · Programming language design
18:20Spotify's Phony War On Bots
362K views • 2 years ago
Benn Jordan
Musician Benn Jordan explains how all of his music was removed from Spotify and walks through the history of digital music distribution and fake streams. He argues that Spotify's anti-bot measures are mostly a phony war.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
13:49Apple Is Terrible for Your Privacy
125K views • 5 years ago
The Hated One
The Hated One argues that Apple tracks users and shares their data despite its privacy marketing, pointing to Apple's own privacy policy. It is a critical take on Apple as a corporation rather than a friend of privacy.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
7:11Louis Rossmann dismantles Apple's PR stunt "repair program"
515K views • 6 years ago
Louis Rossmann
Louis Rossmann criticizes Apple's independent repair provider program as a PR move with invasive contract terms. He argues it does little for independent shops or customers.
Topic match · Tech industry & business models
6:12President Trump: How & Why...
4.8M views • 10 years ago
Jonathan Pie
Jonathan Pie delivers a satirical rant just after the 2016 US election, blaming the political and media establishment for the rise of Trump. It is a short, profane monologue in character as a frustrated reporter.
17:13Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
13.3M views • 11 years ago
LastWeekTonight
A Last Week Tonight segment on how pharmaceutical companies spend billions marketing drugs to doctors. It uses comedy to lay out the industry's questionable practices.
9:42I was asked to keep this confidential
3.1M views • 1 year ago
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder reads a confidential email and uses it to explain her worries about academia and incentives in theoretical physics research. She ties it to her earlier Nature Physics comment on research quality.
7:49Apple REFUSED to Fix our iMac Pro
11.5M views • 8 years ago
Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips breaks an iMac Pro and then tries to pay Apple to repair it, only to be refused service. The video documents the frustrating runaround and what it says about Apple's repair policies for its professional machines.
14:05Userbenchmark - the April Fools that never ends
2.5M views • 5 years ago
2kliksphilip
2kliksphilip examines UserBenchmark, a hardware comparison site known for strongly biased, pro-Intel writing. The video explains the site's credibility problems and points viewers to better sources for CPU and GPU information.
15:50Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid
2.1M views • 6 years ago
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder explains what flat earthers believe and why, arguing that their reasoning is wrong but not stupid. She suggests scientists should take such believers more seriously.
4:21How Real People Will Use Windows 8
1.9M views • 14 years ago
Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo has his father try Windows 8 for the first time to see how ordinary users cope with the new interface.