Most probably yes. Google hasn't been friendly to his content makers for a while.
They were nice before they had the monopoly. Now they don't care.
That's why I really hate all those speeches about how it would be great if everybody used chrome.
A lot of thing the privacy savy tech community predicted about Google 10 years ago arrived exactly as expected. And the reason is not that they are seers seing the future, but because it's always the same story with entities growing and getting power.
YouTube has always had the monopoly - not on video distribution, as many mistakenly assume, but on monetization.
Twitch has recently encroached on that front, and therefore YouTube Livestream was made.
The real reason YouTube doesn't care about content creators is that they are trying to woo more mainstream media onto their platform. With the decline of ad revenue since the ad-pocalypse of 2015-ish, they are trying to change their platform to look like traditional media where big advertisers would pay for spots (the likes of Coke and Nike).
Not on a TV for example. Even Pi Hole doesn't cut it since YouTube/Google do their best to use random URLs that are close to impossible to block entirely.
I actually connect everything through Algo and use that ad-blocking.
This didn't work because the ad was just merely another youtube video. One I've watched before, even. They're definitely trying to boost the view count of that video (it's the first 23ish minutes of that new Gundam movie).
>They were nice before they had the monopoly. Now they don't care.
Google was never nice but it didn't matter before the monopoly. They would literally ban and shutdown all accounts based on automated 'strikes' but most users had other emails/search engines/maps/whatever.
Now that Google has firmly entrenched itself, it's impossible to jump ship. Look at the other thread about Google Analytics and integration with Google Ads; its quite a difficult task to switch from GA
Google had a stellar reputation during the first decade of their existence. Their were the paragon of all the geeks around the world: promoting freedom and openess, hacking and innovating.
And when they bought youtube, they were very, very nice with content creators first. Bot were not banned. No detecting of your white noise video as a copyright material.
The danger with you narative is to forget the evolution from underdog to leader. Because people need to learn this happens all the time, and they need to learn what it looks like.
They were nice before they had the monopoly. Now they don't care.
That's why I really hate all those speeches about how it would be great if everybody used chrome.
A lot of thing the privacy savy tech community predicted about Google 10 years ago arrived exactly as expected. And the reason is not that they are seers seing the future, but because it's always the same story with entities growing and getting power.