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So, they couldn't, you are right. Until now. Google has developed a scheme that will legitimately work. It's essentially drm for the internet in general. It's already baked into chrome and just needs enabling in youtube.
Firefox refuses to support the drm system, but they will just block Firefox from the website eventually.
This is why they are doing these warnings now because they actually have a workable solution.
In that case, I look forward to downloading and torrent seeding my pirated youtube videos. DRM will not stop piracy. I will pirate the fuck out of youtube.
They could have made good money with a reasonable amount of ads but they are greedy and wanted huge and endless profits. They claim to need to make these changes to cover operating costs but they still post higher than expected profits every quarter. I stopped using google search, mail, calendar, and have grapheneOS on my phone. I used to be a google fanboy, but it is so bad now I can't stand to open their page. Fuck the people that work at google that ruined one of the best ways to access all of human knowledge so they can afford another tesla.
So sure, for the big youtubers that's probably workable. Probably not for the few thousand vidw youtubers you like tho
Hopefully this pushes mass adoption of Firefox and abandonment of Chrome.
It already happened and didn't. And when they enforce it, it will be by blocking Firefox so I don't see people moving then either, because you're going from drmed forced ads Internet to no access Internet
Google is a huge backer of Firefox financially. Some say it's to avoid getting sued for monopolistic practices, not just for being the default search engine. I'd be extremely surprised to hear they blocked the browser they fund.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox
They mostly want Mozilla to implement the same internet drm that Chrome has now. They aren't going to allow non drmed browsers, what would the point of making all the drm be?