Peertube is there for those folks. People keep whining about the monopoly but won’t go to another service to help grow it.
People also whine about sponsor ads, as if you have to watch those videos or those channels. Don’t consume their content if you don’t like it.
At the end of the day, if you don’t want to be tracked, hate ads and hate Google the solution is simple: stop using YouTube.
The anti Facebook people understand this, which is why we don’t see incessant posts about facebooks anti-Adblock on HN. The kind of people on HN who hate Facebook probably just don’t visit the site at all. Same with Reddit vs mastodon. Twitter vs threads. Quora vs ChatGPT.
Anti YouTubers seem unique in their constant whining yet reluctance to stop using what they hate.