Seems like a stretch to extrapolate from one word in the title (ie. "quietly") to "shady as fuck to not only make no announcement about the change, but make it difficult to even figure out what's happened". The article even mentions that the author was not involved in discussions between the publisher and youtube[1]. This is like some engineer complaining about how AWS "silently" changed their enterprise terms, when he's not even in meetings between his company and the AWS account rep.
[1] >(I didn’t even really know about it until this links kerfuffle — if you listen to The Vergecast this week, you know our newsroom is firewalled from the business side of our company.)
[1] >(I didn’t even really know about it until this links kerfuffle — if you listen to The Vergecast this week, you know our newsroom is firewalled from the business side of our company.)