I like how in ungoogled chromium, I can NOT get patreon directly uploaded videos to load. They all error out. Even with all of my plugins disabled.
But I can copy out the URL with auth keys and load it in mpv just fine.
Web browsers were a mistake.
The compression quality is garbage, by the way. Fuck patreon.
To be fair, you have no reasonable way to upload a video if you don't want it plastered around the internet. Add the raw file to patreon? Even if it's within the file limit size (editor's note: OP has no fucking clue how big that limit is), people can download it directly without any extra effort. Make it an unlisted youtube video? Well now it's even easier to share around. Gate it behind a discord login? That sucks ass I don't need to tell you that.
All of these options suck. But to be fair, there's no real way to send data to someone else's computer and not expect them to be able to make a copy. That's literally what computers do; manipulate data. But they (Patreon) could at least up the fucking video quality a bit if people are paying money to see it.