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YouTube

Who runs YouTube, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video sharing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of google.com
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Dailymotion

Measured from YouTube’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs YouTube

YouTube youtu.be

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What YouTube tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to YouTube

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to YouTube match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what YouTube adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
25 ms

Built with

Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;700&family=YouTube+Sans:…
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Sitemaps

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