If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

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    9 days ago

    Okay. So if they were willing to stop the data scraping, how many people do you think would be willing to pay for a subscription or increased ads to offset the costs?

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      More than you’d think, but if folks are like myself than not as many as g-daddy would need to justify the switch to a more legitimate model.

      Personally, when a company unilaterally decides it can do whatever the 🦆 it wants with my data, I believe that road goes both ways, so I’ll do whatever the 🦆 I want with theirs. Including downloading it without paying.

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      None of them. You know this answer. They would screech if it were $50 a month.

      Just bring up kagi and see how many folks make up excuses why they suck and ain’t worth it.

      They just want a post facto reason to justify their pirating and stealing. They never were going to pay.

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          You don’t think Netflix scrapes your data to offset the price?

          Y’all jumping through some wild hoops to win an internet argument 🤣