The end game is to take full control. If Google implements Widevine on YT, and especially Widevine L1, that’ll be Google’s Hiroshima bomb for both third-party front-ends and downloaders, and even non-Android, ChromeOS, Apple, or Windows platforms as far as OS goes and non-Chrome or Edge browsers.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That would be their poison pill. Youtube’s advantage is in it’s ubiquity. Lose that, you lose countless users.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.
Mora@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The perfect business case: AI users watching AI ads before AI videos. No pesky users to deal with👍
T156@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But also, they’re not real users watching those ads and getting impressions. Unless people are using an agent system that could be convinced to buy the product, it doesn’t seem like it would be that useful.
You may as well serve ads to standard viewbot at that point.