yeah, in the old days, yt was paying per view. now they pay for the time the viewer sticks around on the platform. therefore videos get unnecessary prolonged and such interactions get promoted.

i have a couple of authors which i follow, so that i don't need to look up and simply filter out what might be interesting to me.

but i would much prefer to get those videos via other channels. at some point i had a program set up, which just grabs videos from the author i choose to my local machine, but my home server is currently not up and disc space became a serious budget issue.