I heard youtube might be attempting to go the twitch route of injecting ads directly into the download stream to avoid adblock. Sorry buddy, but I'll be downloading my music direcly from your site, and ill be using VLC to crop out any ads before burning them onto CDs for my long car rides. Want me to watch ads? I guess you'll just have to kill me.
Some would find this a miracle and other a nightmare. Discerning what groups of people would like/hate this thought experiment is left as an exercise to the reader: https://off-guardian.org/2025/04/13/the-cow-that-lives-forever/
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.