Users will use / do what is required to access YT. Google could proxy through a google.com domain so same site cookies could be set, they could implement this in chrome and users would follow along
Free products are generally supported by advertising. We are being told the W3C has “slapped down” googles attempts around FPS.
I am making the point that if google comes up with a workaround to this “slap down” - users will follow - even if you and others are yelling “it’s not W3C”. That could be modifying chrome to allow this, it could be hosting things under one domain etc
This is not 'suddenly 'free sites' and 'advertising'" - this is how both of these sites have been from the beginning, adding paid options later.
If the w3c somehow forced users to jump through hoops to allow google to advertise to them so they could access their youtube and their Gmail, they would jump through those hoops rather than lose access.
That said, I'm not sure I even believe that W3C has actually been able to "slap down" Google - but we will see. Google, not the W3C makes the BY FAR most popular browser out there, and Microsoft has recently begun migrating ITS own users to, not away from chrome.
Because we are having some definitional issues around the basics of how gmail and youtube function in terms of revenue models and user engagement I'm going to let this rest here on my side.
> If the w3c somehow forced users to jump through hoops to allow google to advertise to them
Why would users need to jump through any hoops to make advertising works? Users will do literally nothing.
You are under false impression that not implementing FPS will somehow prevent advertising from working. No, it won't.
> Because we are having some definitional issues around the basics of how gmail and youtube function in terms of revenue models and user engagement
No idea what you mean by this statement.
The only reason Google wants FPS is to have an easier way to continue tracking users across its properties. It already does that now without FPS, and, surprising no one except you, it doesn't hurt its advertising business in the least. They brought in 147 billion dollars in revenue from ads in 2020. That's 80% of Google's total revenue.
Google and Google's free services will be just fine without FPS.
Are users unable to access gmail / YouTube etc now?