@davidaugust I have the heretical view that it's not only possible, but wise to just post one's own videos on one's own blog with #RSS. As long as the videos are shot in a lower resolution, they are much smaller in size. Hundreds of such videos (say ~160MB each, for an hour's video in 360p) can be saved in the tens of GB that come with renting cheap VPS'. Then a javascript video player like clappr embeds the videos on one's personal web pages. A mountain of #enshittification is avoided in this way.

All the "broken glass" we're being dragged over - as is in the OP - results from unwisely trusting 3rd parties to host the videos. My unpopular opinion is: don't use those 3rd parties, period. Be the 1st party, even if your efforts are a little amateur-looking. The key is to quit being greedy with high resolution - which plays into the hands of #AI, btw. This is to make the file sizes more wieldly and self-manageable. No transcoding, etc. Every such simplification matters.

**You get to set your own license this way also**, such as:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/