Privacy

Of course youtube is going to embrace this. It is a front to deanonymize users under the thin veneered legitimization of “protecting children”. This gives them more control to profile users far more heavily, force them away from adblockers and modified clients, and entice them into premium subscriptions

If it was up to Google you would have an official Google account linked to your government issued identification, that you accessed only via chrome and official youtube clients. Invidious, revanced, ytplus, etc would be illegal, manifest v2 would be done, and they would force through the webdrm thing they demoed a while back.

They know people won’t embrace this so they’ll only do it through small movements toward it whenever possible however possible. They attempted the webdrm stuff and got too much pushback so that was put on the back burner. They have a smokescreen to de anonymize users right now thanks to fascism and homophobic evangelists/radfems deciding they need to police the internet for everyone so they will use it to further their bad faith agenda

Everyone loses. The radfems and evangelicals think they win and they do, temporarily, but not really because VPNs exist and eventually they will recognize that handing over this power to tech giants has created a situation that will blow up in their stupid fucking faces. Well, Google, meta, and apple and such win bc they’ll make fucking bank