Comment by jklinger410
4 years ago
> If creators start encoding their source material into their files Google would probably be fine with that
Not true at all, lol. Google has a paid file storage solution. YouTube is for streaming video and that's the activity they expect on that platform. I couldn't imagine any service designed for one format would "probably be fine" with users encoding other files inside of that format.
I think the parent comment is limiting themselves to the embedding of metadata specific to the containing file. It would be like adding a single frame, but would potentially give useful information to Google. In those limited circumstances I think the parent is correct.