Please keep making it shitier to the point I consume less and less of YouTube.
These tactics are nothing new for non-Chrome users. Most of the "Oh they just didn't have Firefox in mind, no malice on Google's part" it's just bullshit at least in part.
This is just one more instance of it, and it's getting pettier and pettier..
You not watching YouTube is literally what Google wants, you're a net negative to them, so they're making your experience as miserable as possible to make sure you don't come back without money or the ability to watch an ad.
Kinda, platforms like YouTube's lifeblood are the huge amount of eye balls aka "views" so they can sell ads to companies hopeful those eye balls watch and click their ad.
Of course I'm "a free loader" but there is still some residual "value" in me.
Either way I don't care about Google, if they "win" I also would win by not wasting my time watching videos.
These tactics are nothing new for non-Chrome users. Most of the "Oh they just didn't have Firefox in mind, no malice on Google's part" it's just bullshit at least in part.
This is just one more instance of it, and it's getting pettier and pettier..