Nobody claim to be entitled to free video, just a reasonable amount of advertising. Which is not what I (for example) get when I go on YouTube.
Google already has a definitive solution: close down the free access under a registration+payment (reasonable one). Why they are still serving free content? Why they don't get the moneys from the viewers directly?
I think that the reason is that they are inflating the number of viewers to everyone (content creator, stakeholders, etc.). You can fake viewers, you can't fake revenue. So, Google wants us to get more advertising so that they can claim that the number of views in ads increased, to earn more.
My login don't work either. I looked around in KonsoleH and other panels from the Hetzner.com website, and there is no reference to a link like the one in the Reddit post.
Cookie banners were present well before GDPR, and they are not mandated by law.
You can avoid the cookie banner in two ways:
1. Do not use tracking cookies (or other tracking tools); or
2. Ask the consensus in a non-intrusive way, e.g., directly in the page itself.
We know that no company wants to remove tracking cookies because they need to "improve the service". However, there is no reason for not using solution 2. The only reason is annoying the user: a dark pattern to force users to accept cookies.
Google already has a definitive solution: close down the free access under a registration+payment (reasonable one). Why they are still serving free content? Why they don't get the moneys from the viewers directly?
I think that the reason is that they are inflating the number of viewers to everyone (content creator, stakeholders, etc.). You can fake viewers, you can't fake revenue. So, Google wants us to get more advertising so that they can claim that the number of views in ads increased, to earn more.