For users who watch videos, odysee doesn’t look good: infested with GoogleTagManager and/or GA, tracking people with sentry_key, etc. Using piped or maybe random instances of Invidious feels a better idea. For authors, though, escaping from Google is very important (anyone who can’t see this intuitively without even thinking, is not an artist).

Anyway… in one year or so, as soon as Monero->Fiat via CEX is regulated more tightly (if not banned), many of those companies now accepting xmr will probably stop accepting it. Then, perhaps we’re having some interesting experiments.

Buying gift cards with xmr may be a necessary evil, self-contradicting, not really circular, only introducing another kind of middle-man. Services like proxy stores do make sense, though—irl privacy is unfortunately not free-of-charge by default, so one may have to pay to “buy” it.