TBD, Hydrox is a pretty bad name and Oreo definitely had the better marketing team.
Also have a look at daunt.link
You don't go through exit nodes if you stay on onion sites
You can't search multiple platforms at once with newpipe. This is a bigger thing that you think.
Also it has recommendations
That's basically what it is
No. At least not yet
It also has that. You can login with google
You don't even need to subscribe and get recommendations
It's actually the lables that are ripping off the artists.
Spotify isn't profitable. They're constantly losing money
Most people want a great discovering experience and viewing experience and a good looking and smooth UI.
Odysee feels laggy as hell.
But most people aren't you.
You've never uploaded a video to YouTube have you? Their creator tools are actually incredible and their stats are a good way to tune their videos. Of course you shouldn't completely rely on them.
Also it isn't just the content. I rather use YouTube over Odysse, even if it's the same content. It's such a better experience, especially on mobile. Odysee is on the level YouTube was 10 years ago.
Also making a free video streaming site isn't really profitable. I don't know if YouTube still isn't profitable, but I've read reports from 2015 that it still wasn't profitable.
It makes sense that they now try to push things that make them money. They wouldn't push ads so hard if they weren't desperate.
Even the Discord and Buymeacoffee page got taken down. This is larger than any other DMCA I know of
Edit: even the Telegram has been nuked. Yup, Telegram
Because the TV is exactly the same width.