That’s probably true for now. Killing the API would be too much of a shock to millions of people, which would obviously hurt business.

However, making small changes every year is more acceptable. Remember how ads were initially rolled out vs. what they are today? At first, it was just an ad banner below the video, and I was willing to quit YT then and there. Well, turns out ad blockers handled that, so I stuck around. However, a shocking number of people still don’t use an ad blocker, such as Ublock Origin on Firefox, and they seem to just tolerate the ads. These changes happen so gradually, that people get used to them.

My guess is that YT will keep on making the service worse every year, and eventually it will be the time to kill the API. At that point, everything else will probably be so bad, that nobody will even notice the API any more.

“Dodge this”, Han Solo said and threw the ring in the volcano.

I follow the “buy a Windows computer, install Linux, and slap an Apple sticker on it” school of thought. If it’s an Android phone, I would recommend using another Apple sticker.

That’s not very far in the future, so it’s going to be really exciting to see how that works out.

Looking forward to it, but won’t be disappointed if it takes a bit longer than expected.

Lizard people wins the price, hands down.

The way I see it, we’re finally sliding down the trough of disillusionment.