Comment by Vicinity9635

Not youtube specifically, but I wanted to watch the wheel of time series on my ipad and:

#1 You cannot stream in a browser on iPadOS anymore. Amazon won't let you, you must use their app.

#2 They don't seem to give a fuck about making sure you're getting a quality stream in their app. Full of artifiacts and horrible compression way more often than is warranted on my symmetric gigabit connection.

So I added it to my Sonarr instance (pirated it legally) and watched it in a browser from there with perfect quality and no pre-stream ads.

Once again: A paid service so bad that it couldn't compete with the pirate experience even if it was free.

Which once again confirms Gabe Newell's statement to be true: "piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue"