so we already know that youtube doesn’t like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don’t they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos daily they can rate limit that user.
are they afraid of losing their user if they do so? I personally don’t think it can affect their business or profit. It will cut down their cost of bandwidth and computation costs. so why don’t just cut off users that don’t bring any revenue??
If they start requiring a login, YouTube is dead. The accessibility is what makes it popular.
I really don’t think requiring login will kill YouTube. only the privacy conscious people will leave but majority of people won’t even notice.
It might.
YouTube’s business case is that it is the easiest to access video platform and pays out the most to content creators. Adding a login wall may be enough to allow a competitor to come in and compete against that, especially given how YouTube videos are embedded on other websites.
Yeah, youtube is pretty much unusable without login in due to all the shitty videos recommended by default.