Its very funny to me that I only learned about Invidious recently because youtube is trying to take it down. I will never open youtube ever again. Ive been using addblock/tracking blockers for a decade at this point but now I don’t even have to look at their shitty website with its ever degrading interface.
You can’t stop the signal. Fuck you Google.
I’m assuming Google is trying to use fear tactics as the API doesn’t come into play. If they require a Google account for YouTube access, then Invidious would be in trouble for sure. But this would also cut into the view count and it’s tougher to sell ad’s with less views.
Forcing a google account would be wild but apparently Reddit is blocking access to the site on mobile so I wouldn’t be that surprised. Then again, how greedy can these companies be. Google already has chrome which most people use and harvests all your fuckin data. Just leave the like 3% of us alone.
I’ve learned to never rule anything out for Corps when money is involved, but you’re soo correct. They are capitalizing on a vast majority of internet usage, hopefully that hasn’t made em hungry for the last few more tech literate folks online.