Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Youtube's Legal Team sent me a letter! 😃" video.

  1. I once paid for YouTube Premium. I was offered three features of interest: ad-free, family sharing, and pre-caching (misleadingly labelled downloads). YouTube kept showing me ads, claimed my mother wasn't my family, and removed the pre-caching feature. For background, years before they offered premium, I had asked them for the option to buy the ad slots shown to me. They refused, and more than quadrupled the ads, apparently convinced they can't sell ad-free without first making their ads completely insufferable.
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  2. I think opening the VP8/VP9/VP10 codecs (from On2) publically and as basis for AV1 may count. As for the youtube platform itself, they certainly seem enthusiastic about drawing ire.
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  3. Russia does not appear to be doing much better today.
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  4. It's absolutely not just the legal department. YouTube has two guiding principles: Make everything automatic, so staff cannot fix anything that goes wrong (and everything does, automatically). Make sure advertisers pay. That's it; viewers and uploaders alike are nothing but tools for those goals.
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