While Nebula is a creator‑owned ad‑free video service, it’s truly just a conventional centrally‑hosted platform collecting user data like most sites. So while ad‑free, it has no focus on privacy as its privacy policy shows standard analytics and tracking typical of most subscription services. This being the case, it’s not a privacy respecting alternative to YouTube like Peer Tube much at all unfortunately.
Interesting insight thank you, I’ll keep reviewing other services
Others have chimed in already but I do think it has to be a bit more privacy focused than YouTube by virtue of basically being a creator owned co-op vs. an advertising company.
Simply by virtue of having no ads, there’s no incentive to invade people’s privacy and sell the data.
No, But I do like nebula and hate youtube.
It is available on Grayjay if you prefer that
Although Nebula is subscription based and they’d need to know what you’re watching to pay the creators accordingly?
Better Odysee
At some point I think we just have to realize that the vast majority of content we’re accustomed to consuming via services like YouTube and Nebula is just not that valuable. If a creator has to know they’ll get ad revenue or subscription fee sharing and influence through social capital in order to post whatever they’ve filmed, then they simply aren’t very passionate about whatever they’ve made. Why should we be passionate about consuming it then?
By contrast, one great thing about something like Peertube is that since revenue isn’t guaranteed just for uploading passably entertaining junk, the creators who post their own stuff there are really honestly actually passionate and see value in what they made. They want to share it, even if they don’t get anything for doing it.
That kind of creator is so much more worth us gracing with our eyeballs and our donation support than whatever anyone still posting solely on YouTube or some other corpo platform is shitting out.
We also get the huge benefit of Peertube being highly distributed, so the privacy is exponentially better by default.
Edit: Sorry, you asked about Nebula and I just soapboxed about stuff that isn’t Nebula. I paid for Nebula for a while, and it was okay. It had less available content than even Peertube does though, and as others have pointed out, it’s still a corporate service with all the privacy caveats that involves.
are you one of those people that offers artists the opportunity to do free work in exchange for exposure? because that’s what your comment makes you sound like.
the line that my people use in response to that offer is, “you know, people die from exposure”.
we also like “oh great! my landlord just started accepting exposure in lieu of money.”
pay artists and punch nazis every day.
I think you missed the part where I said we need to support the creators who aren’t getting ad revenue with our donations.
Making any content takes time, money, and labor. Nobody can keep making content, especially high-value content, with just “passion.” That’s why all those peertube videos (that are solely based on peertube and not other platforms) are always low quality low effort videos which provides no value to most people
I must have written it in a confusing way or something, because people seem to have missed my point.
I’m making an argument that we need to be supporting creators who do it for passion. I’m not saying they shouldn’t make any money from it, I’m literally saying the opposite thing. They already do it for free, and we should donate to them more.
