That's a great question, snake oil salesman always seem to find a workaround when it comes to human cognition, no matter the density of knowledge in which they live. Knowledge. 😁

Yeah, just like YouTube.

The longer the video, the more advertisements you can put in your video and thus more money you can generate if you keep viewers engaged through the entire video.

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Yes, but there are no ads in these fb videos

Perhaps they're shared from YouTube, where there would have been ads originally?

Huh yeah maybe

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