YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google

Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by pilif on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:20AM (#21504212)

> This doesn't make sense. Anyone can watch YouTube without an account. So even if they terminated a consumer using adblocking it wouldn't change anything for Google.

there are means to identify (and block) unique users without them needing to have an account. Heck, there's even means to identify the usage of an ad-blocker and/or youtube-dl and to refuse to provide the video for such cases.

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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by windexh8er on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:21AM (#21504590)

I see the point but that's a cat and mouse game. Google would invest far more resources to block those users than it was worth.

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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by pilif on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:09AM (#21505928)

Yes. But if they deal with the low-hanging fruits, this change on TOS means that they have covered their asses when the banned people start complaining

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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by rasz on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#21509694)

like manifest V3

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