Video hosting or sharing platforms represent services that facilitate the upload, viewing, sharing, and streaming of video-based content on the Internet.
At this point in time, Google’s YouTube represents the world’s largest video sharing platform, with over 1.9 billion monthly logged users, one billion hours-worth of video watched daily, and 500+ hours of content uploaded every minute of the day.
Despite these impressive numbers, YouTube isn’t without flaws. In fact, the video-sharing platform has many disadvantages and has been involved in numerous controversies that spawn from its very nature – centralization.
These issues include, but are not limited to strict video monetisation policies, unfair video promotion algorithms, lack of a personalized support service, vague terms & conditions, data collection controversies, and privacy concerns.
Because of these pressing challenges, numerous YouTube viewers and…
