I don’t think this has anything to do with YouTube really. They would love to show you all the content all the time. But the strict copyright laws and agreements they’ve made with some parties, such as FOM, requires them to gatekeep some content. YT figured out a long time ago it was better for them to have the content and gatekeep it, than not have the content at all.
It sucks, but the whole world of regioned licensing sucks. But it’s a complicated subject, made more complicated by decades of large companies maximizing their profits and lobbying for complex laws and regulations.
This also clearly isn’t enshittification. It’s kinda sad how that word has just become “I don’t like this”, instead of the narrow definition it originally had.
I dunno, I still think this is on YT. There’s a reason it’s stupid easy to bypass geolocked content on basically any other platform, and it’s because of what you say: the platforms don’t actually care. They BENEFIT from having more content to give you. YouTube is making a distinct effort to go detect geolock bypassing here, where other platforms choose not to.
If I had to guess, it’s really that they want to discourage VPNs entirely, as it fucks with their primary business of data collection.
I don’t think this has anything to do with YouTube really. They would love to show you all the content all the time. But the strict copyright laws and agreements they’ve made with some parties, such as FOM, requires them to gatekeep some content. YT figured out a long time ago it was better for them to have the content and gatekeep it, than not have the content at all.
It sucks, but the whole world of regioned licensing sucks. But it’s a complicated subject, made more complicated by decades of large companies maximizing their profits and lobbying for complex laws and regulations.
This also clearly isn’t enshittification. It’s kinda sad how that word has just become “I don’t like this”, instead of the narrow definition it originally had.
I dunno, I still think this is on YT. There’s a reason it’s stupid easy to bypass geolocked content on basically any other platform, and it’s because of what you say: the platforms don’t actually care. They BENEFIT from having more content to give you. YouTube is making a distinct effort to go detect geolock bypassing here, where other platforms choose not to.
If I had to guess, it’s really that they want to discourage VPNs entirely, as it fucks with their primary business of data collection.