I'm on the hunt, but no luck. I've tried a myriad of search terms to dig it up, but none are able to surface the paper through all the vaporware and blog pieces on competitive AI.
Why would you pay for something that treats you as a product? I would gladly pay for youtube if there was: no paid sponsorships, no ads, no algorythm manipulations, no collection of behavioral information, no clickbaits, no shitty content promoted and so on and so. Basically a service where the side paying is a consumer, not a product. Paying for service that is already extracting value from you in ways that are not respectable is insane.
A well pruned YouTube subscription is right now the highest quality video entertainment and information service in the history of the world. You literally just need to "like and subscribe" to a bunch of high quality videos and YouTube will recommend you a never ending supply of high quality videos. You can then continue to improve your recommendations with the like/dislike buttons.
If you're seeing "shitty content", clickbait and paid sponsorship, it means you haven't told the YouTube algorithm what you want to see. It's just the push of a button.
> no paid sponsorships, no ads, no algorythm manipulations, no collection of behavioral information, no clickbaits, no shitty content promoted
There are plenty of channels that do none of these. As for "algorythm manipulations", YT recommends more of what you like or subscribed to. Not sure what you expect a content aggregator and provider to do. Just have a search bar? I've come across so many interesting channels thanks to the "algorythm manipulations".
I would say it's about as safe as using any other program. On Linux, by default you will not get any isolation within the same user context. So if your account has access to sudo (regardless whether with password or not), assume that any program you've ever run on that account also has sudo access. There are sandboxes and selinux but neither is used consistently enough on consumer systems.
