Yes, I agree with you. It sucks having to make these choices and compromises. The adversarial nature of the web is difficult for service providers but it's actually ideal for users. We all benefit from being able to connect to servers using any browser, any HTTP client. This is especially true when the service providers don't like it. Software like yt-dlp is an example of software that interoperates adversarially with websites, empowering us.
I apologize if I came off as aggressive during my argument. It was not my intention. I think we reached the same conclusion though.
Maybe the true problem is bandwidth is too expensive to begin with. Would the problem still exist if the costs were negligible?
I apologize if I came off as aggressive during my argument. It was not my intention. I think we reached the same conclusion though.
Maybe the true problem is bandwidth is too expensive to begin with. Would the problem still exist if the costs were negligible?