People using 3rd party clients or even adblockers are a tiny percentage of their total users. Which is why it was fairly surprising they went to such lengths for just that tiny bit of viewership. But for monopolists, having 99% is just not enough, they NEED that last percent somehow.
crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I’d love to know the stats of how many people are using the official mobile apps vs third party clients. Surely you’re gonna break third party at some point that people just give up on YT.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 4 weeks ago
Most people are probably just using the official app without a second thought, or even the official web client on Chrome or Edge, or vanilla FF without an ad blocker or any other protections, whatsoever.
This JS thing still isn’t a good sign of things to come should Google crack down even harder.