Is one who follows Al-Albani's authentications and weakenings a follower of taqlid?

The questioner : ... He says, how do you respond to those who say, "You Salafis, or the Salafis, deny taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence), yet you follow Al-Albani when you say, 'He authenticated it,' 'He graded it good,' or 'He weakened it,' even though he sometimes disagrees with the imams of hadith, such as Ibn Hajar, al-Dhahabi, and others?"

The Shaykh : Look, I think you have heard this question: What should a Muslim do if he finds that scholars have disagreed regarding a hadith, with some authenticating it and others weakening it? He must, according to the method,The questioner : follow one of them, either the one who authenticated it or the one who weakened it. Then, he has no one before him to help him or guide him to prefer one opinion over the other. But there is a man who was afflicted by people and people were afflicted by him; he dedicated his life to this knowledge. Some young Muslims became convinced that this man possesses some knowledge of this field, so they callThe questioner : or point to this youth, saying, "The entire Islamic world is calling you Salafis, telling you not to follow scholars without knowing their evidence, and yet here you are following Al-Albani." If one follows those who have died and disagreed, he must adopt one of the two opinions, whether it is authentic or weak. If he finds a person who brings the point of disagreement closer to them, explains the reason for the weakening and the reason for the authentication, and then performs a process of preferring one opinion, is this not better? May Allah the Exalted and Majestic have guided them to a person who revives this knowledge for them, guides the young Muslims, and moves them to learn in the science of hadith. I am not saying something new or revealing a secret; thirty years ago, there was no scholar, writer, or orator in the Islamic world who would mention a hadith in his sermon, in his book, or in any field of knowledge and say, "Al-Bukhari narrated it," or "Muslim narrated it," or "So-and-so narrated it," or "So-and-so authenticated it," or, if he mentioned a hadith, say, "Its chain is weak." This was not mentioned at all in the entire Islamic world before a third of a century ago. But today, praise be to Allah, you find activity in caring for hadith and tracing it to its sources, and even some people try to authenticate it when they have not reached the level of authentication and weakening. This means there is now a scholarly movement in the Islamic world...