I stay up at night much later than my wife and I like to watch YouTube videos, particularly as they relate to our hobby.
However, I don't want to disturb my sleeping spouse, and so I dislike the background cheesy music tracks that most of these videos use-they are often quite loud and heavy on the bass. Also, many intros employ loud noises emphasizing
the content of the video.
Annoying, and to me, unnecessary.

Well said! I too find the music to be a needless distraction. And often too loud and badly done!

If I wanted music in the videos I watch, I'd friggin' SEARCH for "Music Video"!

Also, if you're going to demonstrate how to do something, shut the fuck up and DO it!

Most 10-15 minute videos of that genre' could be cut in half easily.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Also, if you're going to demonstrate how to do something, shut the fuck up and DO it!

Most 10-15 minute videos of that genre' could be cut in half easily.

You can thank Youtube's monetization algorithm.

Most content creators aren't creating Youtube videos purely out of their love of sharing information. They're in it - at least partly - to make some money.

Your income from a video is based partly on the number of ad breaks in a video, and partly on your average video view duration.

Longer videos help with both.

With 1-2 minute videos, while that may be long enough to get the info across, your average view duration is low and and you can only run 1 set of ads.

Whereas videos over 8 minutes let you add a 2nd mid-video ad break, and also increase your average view duration.

Apparently, 8-15 minutes is the "ideal" length for most videos. Long enough to optimize your ad revenue, but short enough that people will still watch the whole thing instead of just clicking away/skipping it.

This is why fewer and fewer videos on Youtube nowadays run under that length, even if that's longer than needed to get their point across.

I have the same issue. I wear a pair of bluetooth earbuds so that the wife is not disturbed.

I've learned to just click ahead to about the 1:00 mark on most all of those videos.

If only there were something to put in or on your ears.....

I have the same problem, only it's not youtube, it's youp...

I have a major beef with the amount of ads. A quick one - that can be skipped, except many can't - at the beginning or ending, OK, I can tolerate that. But anything over ~5 minutes is guaranteed to be interrupted. Just this morning I tried to listen to "Stairway to Heaven" - an 8-minute song - and they put a damn ad in the middle of that. A subscription to Premium is supposed to eliminate ads, but I'm not paying what is tantamount to extortion.

If you aren't paying for the service, you are the product, the ads are there to make money for the host and producer of the video,

Avoiding them is simple enough, don't watch the videos, or, accept that it's the way of the video.

I don't get all the bitching about ad's on free services, now if you're giving them $$ per month then it's another story...

I rarely watch TV anymore, mostly YouTube videos, on my phone. I don't have expensive ear phones, but I do have bluetooth "Work Tunes" ear muffs I use when using the chainsaw, splitting wood, etc... Most night I walk around the house with them on as to not disturb my wife.

However, the absolute best thing I've noticed is you can hold a finger near the top of the screen and watch the video at 2X speed. Unless the person talking is a fast talker, I can understand everything they say and watch the videos in half the time! If it's something important I let my finger off the screen and it returns to normal speed.

Watching videos this way was a game changer.