Seytonic on YT is great for privacy news, although uploads are infrequent.
found that some of them have a history of advertising NordVPN
That strikes off almost all of youtube TBH, maybe that is a good thing for you though?
They don’t hang out on other platforms like Odysee which is strange.
A lot of youtubers I follow have tried it and left because of the unmoderated comments. That should be a big pro point in an ideal world, but the kinds of people that gather in those sorts of places tend to be quite freeze peachy IMO, and there are barely any constructive comments most of the time.
Some other channels set it up to mirror their YT, and have pretty much abandoned it otherwise.
Platforms like Odysee will probably hit a critical mass of non-freezepeachy users when YouTube really messes up IMO, in the same way Lemmy existed for years and had its own culture, before the migration brought over a critical mass of users with a completely different culture.
Youtube will have to really mess up hard though, probably in a way that cuts off third party apps the same way Reddit did. If you ask anyone in my house to open YouTube… it’ll be piped, freetube, newpipe SB or grayjay, not the official site or app. My partner is a very heavy user of Freetube in particular because its so clean.
Oops I just realised how badly I deviated from your original question 😳