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 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.
Mora@pawb.social 6 hours ago
The perfect business case: AI users watching AI ads before AI videos. No pesky users to deal with👍