It's because you have to use YouTube. You don't get a choice. Content creators who upload to other sites don't get an audience, and audiences who go to other

It's because you have to use YouTube. You don't get a choice. Content creators who upload to other sites don't get an audience, and audiences who go to other sites don't get any content. This is effectively a monopoly. It probably doesn't fit any legal definition of a monopoly but it has all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship between a service and a customer base. And therefore you shouldn't feel any guilt of depriving Google of their ad-revenue or their mining of your personal data. Google's not some poor little startup that bit off more than it could chew and accidentally ended up serving videos to the entire world, they have strategically maneuvered themselves into this position for the money and influence they stand to gain by putting themselves in a position where they have information and control over how information is exchanged between people online.