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Piracy as a quality of service issue
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Alternative frontends don't fall under piracy by any definition. Youtube's servers are publicly accessible.
I don't know about that. The ads and telemetry are how users "pay" for access. Removing ads and telemetry means users are no longer "paying".
If it's not piracy, it's definitely piracy adjacent.
Telemetry, advertising, etc. are ultimately web page elements that I can download or block. The paid offering might have a TOS that requires acceptance of such, but those terms do not bind me as a free, public visitor. I think Youtube is doing its best to have people buy its nonsense argument, as part of a wider campaign to shift the public's understanding of web site versus web service. For what it's worth, I don't see them ever putting their money where their mouth is by pay-walling the whole site.