You do realize that, at its heart, Google is an advertising company, right? The instant the video service (we can all deduce which video app by Google you're referring to based on the description) was purchased by Google (that's right, that service/app was a Google acquisition not a homegrown app) ads embedded in videos should have been a foregone conclusion. Without ads in the videos, creators would not get monetized videos and the videos there wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Google realizes not everyone wants to see the ads and offers the subscription to help offset the loss of ad revenue.
Would it be nice to have an option to dismiss the prompt to get you to sign up for the subscription at app launch and keep it gone? Sure.
If it's not the ads at issue but certain tactics of preventing certain content from being posted, understand that after January 6 companies are TERRIFIED that if similar activities are planned using their resources or platforms that they will be held responsible. Similar can be said about moderating information about other recent events in order to help prevent false statements from becoming widely distributed and then attributed to their platform.
Also consider the requirement to use the Google-supplied app a form of copyright protection. Some of the content available on the video app is more than "short videos" and is regulated by copyright. Allow 3rd-party access to the platform and it's opened to the content being pirated.
This is what I tried to indicate in my last posts. I don't really care what Google's endgame is, if it's an advertisement company etc. I am also fully aware of the fact, that Chad Hurley, Steve Chen etc. were the original creators of the site and that they sold it on to Google. In fact I have been using the website long before there was a requirement for a Google-account and registration. Since my first smartphone - an HTC Wildfire - I have also been using the Android app itself and seen and followed its development into the abomination that it has turned into today. That is, notwithstanding the content that it might or might not offer to its users.
Yes, it would be swell to have an option to dismiss the prompt once and for all but it isn't done by mistake. Everything today is done according to the last planned detail, micromanaged in countless meetings, considered and weighed while each and every of the cons and pros are evaluated before publishing. This is not a slip of the mind that that prompt or similar behavior in the app is done repeatedly. It is - without no doubt - intentional. Thinking about a need or use case for not having a cookie, a setting or similar to permanently register the first choice of a user's decision in that moment instead of slavishly exposing him/her to the same pop-up a thousand times afterwards can hence, only lead to one conclusion - it's done to harass and p*** off the user until he/she relents and caves in to a subscription.
There are those users who well..., relent, and those who take up the challenge and draw a line. I count myself to the latter group and not only that - I get turned off by that treatment (and I am pretty sure, that I'm not the only one having those thoughts) which equates to the fact that I never have and never will buy, subscribe or acquire ANYTHING that I get presented for in that forceful and coercing way by those ads - on the contrary. I actually remember those companies advertising and turn to their competitors as far as humanly possible if I need some of the advertised products. In fact, I get turned off by being spammed by an borderline-insane amount of ads in the beginning, middle and end of almost any single video as well as by Google, disabling features that used to function just fine with the phone's peripherals before a new version suddenly disables it for 'unknown reasons'. I could also claim, that you didn't really relate to what I said about the ginormous amounts that Google sucks out every single day from ie. the EU or other markets, that it does so by not paying taxes, using tax-havens and other tax-related smart accounting-maneuvers that border criminal activity. Profits which could - easily - pay for those expenses it - claims - it has due to running servers all over the world, paying third party royalties and licensing fees etc. and probably do so ten times over or more while - still - making an absurd profit.
But I won't and don't want to because when I started this thread, I had already been fed up for years (in particular the last 3-6 months) as well as made up my mind about my intent to see if I could find a way to change to an older app version of said app where those nuisances would be either less or non-existent. I the final analysis, I could live with a reasonable amount of hassle but there has to be a certain balance and some restraint shown by Google and as things are looking now, it's crossed that thin red line and passed way over it without no sign of intending to stop and go in reverse.
So again, I really, really don't want to get into these discussions - and I say this with the utmost respect and without the intention of sounding nasty as mentioned before - but only intend to find the answers to my initial post and the questions I uttered hereafter in response to others replying to the very same in order to find a solution to my questions.
Thanks for your understanding in advance.
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