The purpose, is to keep it difficult enough that the “honest” person doesn’t get the idea to start doing it.
Same concept as putting a lock on your front door. It’s not to stop thieves, it’s to stop the average person from getting the idea to “just take a quick look”.
By occasional going after workarounds AND making it public news. Your average computer user thinks it’s not worth the hassle.
If they don’t want honest people considering it, maybe they shouldn’t raise the price by 80% in a single price change.
I paid for YouTube premium when it was first available. They guaranteed the price would never change as I was a first adopter. Then they did. Then they did it again. And then again.
Google can fuck off. They have all the money in the world and they need to extort the people who helped grow their business.
Jesus Christ google, how much money are you spending to foil 0.000034% of your user base
The purpose, is to keep it difficult enough that the “honest” person doesn’t get the idea to start doing it.
Same concept as putting a lock on your front door. It’s not to stop thieves, it’s to stop the average person from getting the idea to “just take a quick look”.
By occasional going after workarounds AND making it public news. Your average computer user thinks it’s not worth the hassle.
If they don’t want honest people considering it, maybe they shouldn’t raise the price by 80% in a single price change.
I paid for YouTube premium when it was first available. They guaranteed the price would never change as I was a first adopter. Then they did. Then they did it again. And then again.
Google can fuck off. They have all the money in the world and they need to extort the people who helped grow their business.