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Oh, it's dangerous and harmful all right : to their business model.
I think the big G is probably starting to get pretty nervous about self hosting. It absolutely is a threat to their existence. They are nothing without users.
There's a lot of us fed up with enshittification and every video that helps people break free of their capture is extremely dangerous to them. Seriously.
Of course they are, and you can stream the media or download it via many other means including youtube-dl.
They also still actively thwart users who are on a CG-NAT'ed connection so I ponder if the legality is now starting to bog them down.