I think Valve in on very early steps of enshittification. Maybe not everyone, but most companies started like that. I mean being nice to users. Counterargument to my claim is that they are already millionaires, which is true, but humans’ greed may be limitless.
My approach may be not most anonymous, but it gets the job done. I’m downloading from multiple free VPNs. That’s it. If I exhaust quota, just switch to another one.
Don’t give up your privacy by disabling adblocker. I enabled AdBlock on anything I own. If YT will be persistent about it, I’ll just leave. There are plenty alternatives to YouTube frontend.
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