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There's a bit difference between breaking a scraper and sending Cease and Desist letters.

Also, blocking scraping is very rich (and expectedly hypocritical) for an AI company, which SpaceX is now.

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This might be the first HN thread I’ve seen where the statement “regiwalled content is bad” is somehow attracting a lot of negative reactions…
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I don't get it, are you implying everyone who's not a fan of this change is a Google employee?
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Maybe he's saying everyone who works at Google works on breaking yt-dlp...?
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