Why doesn't youtube shut down their public web api? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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so we already know that youtube doesn't like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don't they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos daily they can rate limit that user.

are they afraid of losing their user if they do so? I personally don't think it can affect their business or profit. It will cut down their cost of bandwidth and computation costs. so why don't just cut off users that don't bring any revenue??

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[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You don't think Apple could? (Not that they want to)

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

No, even if they wanted to, they have no expertise in UGC and they don't have the infrastructure to do any of that

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime?wprov=sfla1

Quicktime was awesome. They could revisit what worked well about it.

They have deep deep pockets and could throw money at it if they wanted to be come after the market.

They already have a zealous fanbase that will ignore flaws.

I think they could do it, if they wanted to. Would take time and they would have to bleed money for a while, anyone who tries to take on youtube would have to though

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024

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