> the video has been taken down since it explicitly talks about circumventing youtube ads or alternative interfaces to access youtube (newpipe, invidious etc) -
Honest answer, probably because it’s a YouTube video, convention in the past used to be to tag it as a video in the title, but people don’t seem to do that anymore.
There are thousands of HackerNewsers whose entire livelihoods are predicated on building the Google Panopticon Machine. The value of their RSUs is hopelessly dependent on things like this being swept under the rug.
And this is really, really bad. I hope Google gets hit so hard by this.
Isn't there a law where they are limited in the content moderation they have to do, because they act as dumb pipe? Won't they have violated this?