I don't want to pay for YouTube premium because I don't want YouTube music. I already have Spotify, why should I have a redundant service that I'm actively paying for.
I have no issues with paying for YouTube since at the end of the day video hosting on the scale that YouTube does cannot be profitable by ads alone.
I just wanna pay like £5 a month for just ad free viewing, none of the extra fluff crap like downloads or playing in the background or YouTube music.
"arch is spyware"
Would you like to open a GitHub issue as to how?
See I used to think this was a feature where it auto translated titles for you because some of the titles are a bit nonsense. Guess not.
Well they want to prove who you are because a Google account is the central part of someone's online life. I'd imagine that binning off all that info quickly looked really suspicious and flagged something on their systems. They can't just let that slide because of the possible implications, someone might use that email as their bank account login or maybe it's linked to something really personal.
Is it out of the goodness of their hearts? Hell no, it's entirely to cover their asses from liability for damages.
Not to mention that to host content on the scale that YouTube does is ruinously expensive both in terms of bandwidth and cost. It's enough to choke out any smaller competitors almost immediately.