Good on you to not have to maintain legacy code (15years+).
Also, as a comparison, with JAVA, I have a legacy JAVA 1.5 to maintain, as far as you have the runtime, that stuff works, and that's it. This is how it should be.
Thaqnks for the heads up, I remember having read somewhere this should be coming back, but my system didn't receive that update as it seems... I'll wait and see.
well, since the debacle I was thinking: do I really need YT? What if I don't access it at all, will my life become miserable? Nope, because YT is not something I NEED, just something I WANT.
Once we realize that, it's easy to look elsewhere, or even find something more productive to do.
Serious Answer: PHP in itself is not that bad, despite some discussable decisions in function naming and arguments order to name a few. The biggest problem, is that it has a settings file describing how it works (php.ini) and that sh*t will bite you in the rear when you move apps from server to server, where all the libs are different etc...
PHP never works out of the box when moving something on a new server, that is the worst part of the language.
If you have tampered monkey, I have a script to open videos on invidious instead. (only the thumbnail)
It's not perfect, but works well enough, it's my default viewing way now.
Tell me if you're interrested.
Reading your comment made me realize something important.
Creators should pay the hosting of the files (at a reasonnable rate of course), so the longer and higher quality they want to upload, they have to pay a little fee.
Now, it'll certainly skim off the stupid random uploads that nobody need, and lower storage cost of useless videos.
(I only have a couple of vids, I don't mind paying for the storage to keep them live, and I stop paying, they are free to delete them, no problem)
Next, viewers should pay for the streaming, which is legit anyway, why not, as far as it is at a - yet again - reasonable price.
This should make the plateform content of better quality without all the shit posts, then less ads for the free viewers if reasonable would be enough.
Problem is Google is greedy beyond return, they'll never take a good decision that favorites us instead of them.
It's a fun tool, and to some extend, it feels "programmy".
But, also, comparing to HTM, YAML JSON etc, those are just data format that need to be parsed and used by programs, so it is definitely different.
First, I am with OP on this, but with mild counter points:
I block ads because they are intrusive, contain scam and viruses
I don't want to pay YT because I am already the product, and my trust is long gone about them saying they respect my privacy
"Hosting is expensive" is what we hear left and right but...
letting people upload many hours long is not what YT was supposed to be,
4K vids and up are huge, so is HDR, do we really need such fat video files/streams? I don't...
for those who need 2000inch TV size quality, yeah, they want to charge those.
I would be OK to pay, but google will rise the price eventually and it feels like changing a contrcat I signed to begin with and I dan't agree with that. (price raising reason are the previous points above, I am not concerned by those and I don't see why I should pay that much)
I am a google pixel user, google already got some of my money anyway, which I am happy with.
In the same vein, I wait Netflix to raise their price again (I bit the bullet twice) but there won't be a third time.
Same for Spotify.
Those services should realize they are not essential, just bare useful, and should be priced as such.
I use a VPN, and I saw the popup.