By the way:
They do that for 3 reasons: Keeping you on the site longer, which increases its rating with Google.
Adding more space for ads.
And preventing others from simply scraping and reposting the entire content on their site, since recipes by themselves can’t be copyrighted, but written stories can.I actually use my recipe blog to store passwords and credit card information. I’ve never had an issue.
True.
Although in Tolkien’s case, I think no one bothered to tell him that writers like Dickens were paid per-word for what they wrote and he just figured he’d do what everyone he grew up reading did.
Why not just explain why instead of expecting people to watch some long video? Surely the reason can’t be that complicated.
The fact that you are expecting people to watch a 17-minute video to learn why you should spend about the same time reading someone’s personal journey to the recipe you want to get to suggest you don’t really understand the issue. Nor does the person who made that video.
The other day, about an hour before it was time to cook my daughter dinner, I realized the steak I bought her was a cut of steak I’d never cooked before (I don’t even eat meat), so I tried to find information about the best way to cook it. And it took half of that hour.
