cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30604940
Video uploading sites are supposed to be free. Social media is meant for the masses. Of course a user has the right to maintain privacy. In this case, video uploading sites like Peertube, rumble gives the option of keeping the video private. There’s also a provision for unlisted videos, which can be watched only when the person has access to the link. Otherwise watching videos on social media is free.
Only youtube has this system of paying for watching videos.
So my question is, is there any means of cracking youtube so that we can have a share of the paid content as well ?
Why are video uploading sites supposed to be free? It costs money to build and maintain them, especially at a scale “for the masses”.
Honestly, I’d prefer it if YouTube had just been a subscription you paid for. Better money for the creators, and Google would have had less incentive to harvest every piece of possible personal data about their users to give to advertisers.
Less incentive to pander to the sensitivities of advertisers too.
