[hollow-moe]

Damn that's crazy, nothing a simple static redirector in a single js line can't fix. Overall cost to implement this shit : likely thousands hundred k Bypass cost : literally 0 It really is just a way for them to say "we can fuck with you as much as we want and you won't do shit cause what you gonna do ? go somewhere else ?"

[xeonmc]

In killing the cable company, YouTube has become the cable company themselves.

[immibis]

Exactly like cable companies did when they killed whatever was before. Every corporation always acts to maximize revenue.