On: Fighting for the open web [image]

[pkulak]

My guess is that they want to stop bots from creating Google accounts once and for all. I don’t see them putting DRM on YouTube. That would break every app everywhere, and many of them can never be updated. Most could never be updated to this scheme.

[peteforde → pkulak]

I remember when it was common to release third-party Twitter clients and bots were considered first-class citizens.

Large companies are far less uptight about breaking ecosystems that you might think. I say this as a former VB6 developer.