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Re:YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole by EA-3167 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:28PM (#37883484)
I bet it's cheaper for a bunch of bored techies to figure out "loopholes" in whatever Google builds, than it is for Google to adapt.

That sort of asymmetry is why giant companies can't stamp out piracy as well.

Re:YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole by ta8645 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:00PM (#37884644)
Given how few people continue to use Bittorrent these days, I'd say media companies have demonstrated an ability to do pretty well at customer capture and enforcement. Similarly, they don't have to completely eradicate adblockers, just reduce their usage into the noise.
Re:YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole by EA-3167 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:34PM (#37892143)
That's only true if you ignore that Bittorrent has been largely replaced by pirate streaming.