Those flags are helpful, as I’ve been trying to avoid links to the wretched remains of Twitter. Sometimes the temptation is too great and I’ll watch an occasional video, but I don’t want to reward the muskrat - even if he only makes 1/1000 of a cent per click. I have no idea what he gets in actuality, but even if it’s negligible, it’s still galling.

Explained here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/125626903

If you know that you do not want to see any threads with videos, the best you can do at the moment would be to trash the Cable News Clips forum and the Liberal YouTubers forum. That will not get rid of all videos, and won't get rid of OPs with tweets in them, but it will significantly reduce the number of videos that you see on the Latest page.

skim the thread title and the name of the DUer who posted it, to decide if you want to look at it.

as to "how long is too long," that varies on my mood, but certainly, anything approaching an hour. But, even on a good day, most longer than 10 minutes.

...quickly clicking the video, which exposes a timeline at the bottom of a video. If it's more time than than you care to invest in watching the video, you can leave the page.

I can find out what I look for without doing so.

I’d like more control of where content is sourced from. Xitter is toxic to me.