YouTube is driving me nut's. They have slowly changed the layout and introduced all sorts of complications. Somehow I now have two accounts under one hood WTF...I'm confused.

I'm not interested in the whole social media crap they are forcing upon us. I feel like YouTube is trying to copy Facebook, or at least going down that same road. They even have a user home page kinda thing with a banner space at the top.
I haven't got the time or inclination to learn and get involved with complying to what they want me to do. All I want is somewhere to upload and store my videos for web use. But Google is taking over
Fair enough they are providing a so called free service

and I understand they need to make money out of it somehow. TBH if they provided better options, maybe a YouTube light version with no adverts, social media, data collection for marketing purposes etc etc. I would be willing to pay a small fee like I do Photobucket in return for better services. Why is it that this whole social media and data collection thing is pushed upon us.
Yeh I could probably find a service with my requirements, but it will most likely be expensive and then there are the complications...well, more like conveniences. For example directly posting links or embedding. So we go back to the likes of YouTube just so we can directly embed video here, there or wherever. So...back to square one, and the big boys know this. They have the control, power....they are controlling us.
Not something I am entirely happy about.
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