Should probably just pay for YT Premium. Expensive, maybe, but supports the platform. Takes money to maintain software, provide bandwidth and storage. Lots of

Should probably just pay for YT Premium. Expensive, maybe, but supports the platform. Takes money to maintain software, provide bandwidth and storage. Lots of music. Has vast library going back 15 years now. Creators can be supported (although the incentives are to make ad-friendly content, which usually disappoints) via Patreon (to incentivize content that isn't as ad-friendly). Some will feign that people will want to deal with hosting video, decentralized, at scale. They won't. Only nerds will; you and me. Nobody else cares because it's slow and less convenient (not even throwing shade, that's just a good product). Plus less and less people can afford housing so that's less people affording PCs for their housing/hosting (nobody is going to host from their laptop on coffee wifi). We can be upset about that, or we can just accept it.