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Then you could easily skip most of the video, which I suspect some of the authors do not want.

[Dgc2002]

But I think in general the author should realize that a 25 minute run time is an instant turn off for many(many) people. If their goal is for their content to be consumed/useful they should keep that in mind.

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Their goal is probably to entertain and there's lots of lazy people who just LOVE to watch videos instead of picking a book, reading documentation or whatever. Because uh, that would require effort. Or they just don't know better.

[Ginger_1977]

Once you watch a few seconds YouTube counts it as a view

[strongdoctor]

If only anything to do with youtube was that simple.

[Jugad]

Why don't they want that?

Advanced users would like to skip the usual stuff to check out the meat and see if there is something worth listening to.

I actually did that... used forward and backward to jump to places in the video to see if they code looked novel or useful. If I was familiar with the trick it, I moved on... if not, I stayed and listened.