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3 Rules To Find The Best YouTube Alternative

Brinck Slattery • Oct 30 2018

With more and more stories of censorship on YouTube coming out ever day, both viewers and creators are scrambling to find a YouTube alternative that won't take down their content, remove creators' ability to make money off their work, and disappear popular creators, leaving fans in the lurch.

But finding the right YouTube alternative can be a real challenge. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of video sharing sites out there, and it can be difficult to tell one from the other, let alone figure out whether they're likely to turn to censorship or steal your personal information on behalf of advertisers (like YouTube and other popular social platforms).

Feeling as confused as this stock photo lady? Before looking for your next YouTube alternative, stick to these three rules to find one that will last.

3 Rules To Find The Best YouTube Alternative

  1. Watch out for ads. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other tech giants have become famous (and infamous) for turning their users' personal data into cash by selling it to advertisers. Upstart YouTube alternatives are no different - if there are ads on the site, someone is getting paid for information about the site's users. YouTube's ad-supported revenue model is what caused the demonetization crisis in the first place - when advertisers are the ones supporting a company, their interests come first.

  2. Read the fine print. Even without ads, YouTube alternatives can try to make a profit off your personal data. Make sure that any YouTube alternative you use is committed to not selling user data to 3rd parties, and that they say so in their terms and conditions.

  3. Make sure they let you keep your content. Sort of an addendum to "read the fine print" - depending on the terms and conditions that a YouTube alternative adopts, they may claim ownership or the right to re-use your content for their own purposes without attribution or compensation. When you pick your YouTube alternative, make sure that it allows you to re-download your own videos and maintain ownership of them.

There's one YouTube alternative that checks all these boxes, and then some - LBRY. LBRY is a decentralized, peer to peer content network that lets creators own their creations, and lets fans compensate creators directly for their work without any ads or middlemen. Download it today!

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Brinck Slattery · · ·

Brinck’s range of experience includes national political campaigns, crisis PR, SEO writing and optimization, digital marketing, RV sales, construction labor, and a variety of other strange and interesting pursuits (feel free to ask).

An inveterate music and media lover, Brinck remembers the pain of Kazaa and Limewire, and is seriously psyched about living in the future where it’s easy to compensate artists directly for their work.

He lives in Manchester, NH and can be regularly found lurking wherever the latest music is blaring.