How Qortal Revolutionized Video Sharing

When we think of video sharing platforms online, only two big names come to mind: Youtube and Tiktok! And given that TikTok users spend more than 1.5 hours on the app each day, and that over 2.6 billion people around the world use YouTube every month, it’s not surprising to hear that these corporations hold so much influence on the internet!¹

But the truth is that such concentration of power in just a few hands always leads to problems, and video-sharing platforms are not exempt from that! Deplatforming, censorship, demonetization and an ads overload are just a few of the negative realities that have come to be associated with these applications!

Given their extensive purchasing power, these corporations can keep content creators hooked on their application, tempting them constantly with alluring monetization programs. The more videos they post on their channel, the more the company can run ads on those videos, and finally the more they can pay the content creators for their efforts. In theory, it’s a good reward mechanism for creators, but for users it leads to an video experience that is extremely commercialized, vapid and simply irritating!

Indeed, the internet was built to enable the free-flow of information. One where users could exchange in full freedom, without worrying about having their data being harvested against their will, or without having to watch 23 ads, comprising 10 double ads and 3 single ads, a single hour of video watching on Youtube.² Or without users having to compromise on their privacy, because their personal data is being harvested and studied by a big corporation, without prior consent from the user him or herself.³

Youtube ads are so ubiquitous that we hardly notice them anymore, even if there can be as many as 3 in one video!⁴

And let’s not even talk about how rampant the censorship is on these platforms! Here is one quick example: just in the first quarter of 2024, YouTube removed over 157,000 videos for violating hate speech policies.5 Here is another: back during the covid pandemic, Youtube banned Sky News Australia’s channel for 1 week for spreading misinformation about Covid, which simply meant pushing a narrative that was different from the mainstream one at the time.6 This led to a significant loss of money for the news outlet, since their monetization was also cut off at this point too.

Youtube censorship has become a real, widespread problem⁷

Are we starting to see the problem with centralized platforms holding so much influence on the normal internet? Especially for something as common as videos, which are some of the most consumed data sources on the internet. Well, it doesn’t need to be that way, and Qortal offers a new hope to content creators around the world.

It offers this hope through a Q-App called Q-Tube, which is a video-sharing platform where there are no ads, no data harvesting, no censorship, no corporate monetization programs, and most importantly, no deplatforming! This means that when a video is posted on Q-Tube, it will stay up forever, unless replaced by another video by its owner.

Screenshot of Q-Tube on Qortal Hub⁸

On YouTube, every search, view, and like is stored, analyzed, and used to manipulate what you see next. With Q-Tube, there is zero data tracking! What you watch is your business and your business alone. Also, Q-App developers must request the user’s permission before accessing any data, such as the user’s name, avatar, QORT balance, or anything else. There are also no more annoying ads, since Qortal doesn’t enforce any third-party marketing on its platform, unless it’s embedded by the content creator him or herself inside the video.

Regarding monetization, it is still possible on Q-Tube, using a feature known as a super-like. Sending a super-like means rewarding content creators for videos they’ve uploaded on the platform, by adding a comment on the video which has a certain amount of QORT attached to it. And the best part? The entirety of the amount goes to the creator. No more splitting revenues with a big corporation, or paying unnecessary taxes on revenues made online.

To conclude, the arrival of Web3, and specifically, Qortal, has revolutionized many industries on the normal internet, as explored in previous blogs. And today, we saw that video sharing platforms have also been completely overhauled, with the arrival of Q-Tube! Privacy lovers, content creators, decentralization evangelists, and Web3 enthusiasts worldwide can rejoice, now that they can watch videos in full confidence that their data is safe, and that no third-party is snooping on their viewing preferences. It’s time to reclaim control of your data when watching videos, and Qortal has a solution available today that is both user-friendly and with low barriers to entry. The future of video is already here! If you’re tired of ads, censorship, and corporations controlling what you see, it’s time to take back control! Install Qortal today, open Q-Tube, and experience video-sharing the way it was meant to be!

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2. Confused Bird. (n.d.). How many ads does YouTube serve for 1 hour of video? Confused Bird Forum. https://confusedbird.com/thread-359.html

3. McKinnon, J. D. (2024, September 19). Social-media firms lack adequate privacy controls, FTC report says. The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/social-media-cos-lack-adequate-privacy-controls-ftc-report-says-3f5b68db

4. Waffle Bytes. (2022, August). YouTube ads [Image]. Waffle Bytes.

5. Reuters. (2024, August 13). YouTube shuts Portuguese extreme-right group's channel after NYT queries. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/youtube-shuts-portuguese-extreme-right-groups-channel-after-nyt-queries-2024-08-13/

6. BBC News. (2021, August 1). Australia COVID: Brisbane extends lockdown as Delta outbreak grows. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58045787

7. Liberties. (n.d.). YouTube face logo [Image]. Liberties. https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/protect-free-speech-campaign-online-censorship/224

8. Qortal Project. (n.d.). Q-Share Homepage [Screenshot]. Qortal Hub.