With a privacy protecting setup, the mainstream internet is almost unusable. To sign up for social media or even a gmail account, one has to provide a phone number for verification. Youtube doesn’t work when not signed into a Google account, or if one is connected to a VPN. Even downloader programs like yt-dlp and freyr have been rendered useless by the strict access controls of the major platforms. There is a vast amount of community, DIY, and educational material of all sorts behind these platform walls, so how can someone who doesn’t want to be tracked access any of it these days?
There are alternatives like archive.org and peertube which are wonderful but have nowhere near the amount of content that people have been uploading to YouTube over the years. For example, if I need to fix a washing machine and there is a tutorial on YouTube, how can I see it while still preserving a modicum of privacy online?
Where do you live that has Youtube channels being broadcast on TV or available on discs at the library?
I thought the question was more about media in general, not about Youtube channels in specific.
But I live in Germany, the collaboration between public broadcasting and Youtube creators is called Funk. They occasionally broadcast stuff on the speciality channels and some creators landed a show on the main program, resulting in shows like MaiThink X. Though that kind of stuff is then in turn sometimes not published on Youtube, since they want to promote their own internet streaming platform, called “Mediathek”. And you’re going to have a hard time accessing all of that unless you’re inside of Germany, since they use geoblocking. We also have a few other nice shows on public TV, like Feuer und Flamme, some satire / late-night shows, content for children, good regional news etc.
And the products I see from Youtubers and podcasters (" Influencers") in the library (or bookstore) are mostly books. Like cookbooks, sometimes novels, or they’ll write some long form essays about the same thing their regular content is about and they’ll try to make some extra money by selling books to their fans. I don’t think they do DVDs. Most people are still on Youtube or TikTok and borrowing discs or watching linear TV is too cumbersome for their target audience.