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 ?
Maan, I feel you. With all the ads that get shoved to our eyeballs, looking forward to the options.
However, need I remind you that handling yoctabytes of videos uploaded and streaming on a cloud infrastructure is a very, very expensive task (annual operating cost of more than 3 billion dollars) that’s few countries GDP combined!
Blocking ads on Youtube is fairly easy. uBlock Origin does it without any tinkering, for example.
https://freetubeapp.io/ https://newpipe.net/ etc.
Also pipepipe (fork of newpipe)