03-07-2020, 01:05 PM
My initial answer is that there are very few alternative services without power-draining ads. That said, there are quite a few alternatives. I can't escape Google services, but I use DuckDuckGo for search. I don't rely on Facebook for very much but limited publicity of my biking stuff. YouTube has some competition, but nothing quite so big: DailyMotion, Vimeo, Vevo, DTube, etc. It may be better to find the folks you like wherever they moved to. But sometimes the source itself can be a problem. Even your favored Abbeville folks are blocking at least one of my browsers. It's a pretty unsettled battleground out there right now.