The free sites worth the advertising
] nothing is given, only lent / against a debt you pay / in attention [
A free tube funds itself with your attention and your data, and the honest question is not whether that trade exists but whether it is a good one. The four large tubes charge differently. Knowing how changes which one you should open.
EPorner
The lightest load. Fewer interruptions, cleaner pages, and a catalogue small enough that the site can afford to organise it.
Pornhub
The heaviest catalogue and a moderate ad load. You pay in scroll — the sorting labour the site declines to do for you.
xHamster
Busy pages, but the community layer is genuinely worth something. You are paying in visual noise for other people's curation.
XVideos
The most aggressive advertising and the largest catalogue. A fair trade only if the catalogue is what you came for.
None of these is free in the sense that a library is free. What differs is how much of the transaction the site admits to, and on that axis EPorner and XVideos are the most honest, for opposite reasons.