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I’m sure there will be a way round it, I suspect there are some people that may give up trying to find that workaround fairly quickly though and that may be who YouTube is targeting.
Also since people may want to be logged in for a couple reasons, e.g. so the algorithm is more tailored to them (yes yes I know YouTube algorithm bad), they can like/comment, subscribe, use watch lists, etc.
I’m sure there will be a way round it, I suspect there are some people that may give up trying to find that workaround fairly quickly though and that may be who YouTube is targeting.
Also since people may want to be logged in for a couple reasons, e.g. so the algorithm is more tailored to them (yes yes I know YouTube algorithm bad), they can like/comment, subscribe, use watch lists, etc.