Your metadata is still extremely valuable to them, and it’s not limited to just watch history and likes, but rather everything on how you engage in their services, including where your mouse cursor sits.

Not using it helps do that.

I’ve seen more than one hour long ad. It let you skip after 5 seconds, but imagine if someone were leaving it on as background.

Just like every other conservative social network *cough* Truth Social *cough*.

To add onto the pedantry, it’s only changes in gravity which propagate at the speed of light. A static gravitational field doesn’t need to propagate.

This is a valid point, but should be something that gets addressed on a case-by-case basis since it’s inevitably about that specific employee’s productivity.

Management probably didn’t realize that the work was getting automated.

Ads aren’t the only form of revenue for them, and historically, YouTube had been run at a loss for years.

I’m sure they’ll try to implement some type of DRM BS into the web

Funny you say that:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-against-everything-google-once-stood-for/

You and the other person’s misrepresentation of the reason others are complaining about this are little more than complaining about other people complaining.

If by “afloat” you mean “a flotilla”, then yes.

Don’t worry, this was just the Chinese campaign. The Russian one is still going strong.

At least email has some tools to help mitigate the issue, like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. They aren’t perfect, but they are loads better than telephony.

IP hasn’t been an admissible form of identification for over a decade now.

Now, suppose that someone hasn’t been piggybacking off of their neighbor’s wifi, and it leads to a household with multiple adults renting the place with internet included in the rent, how would you determine which specific person to take legal action against? Secondly, in order to actually file the suit without it being a waste of time, they would have to have independent data showing that this person did indeed do the action and aren’t just making it up, in which case getting the IPs from a third party would be completely moot.