Author here, You're right. That IS my goal though, to get rid of stuff I don't want quicker.
> Then I can take one glance at the summary and skim through the video in my first watch. If I find it interesting, I would watch it completely, else I discard it from my list.
It's one thing to support your local grocer and totally different to support a company with multiple millions in VC funding, especially when they company doesn't even offer you much advantage (Lisp features)
Those countries are monarchies, yes. I wouldn't call them dictatorships. Based on external optics, I'd say there's a few countries that are technically democracies but give off more dictatorship vibes than the 3 you mentioned