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Service providers always want full control of the user experience and bots get in the way of that. We know this, but very often, that's not in the interests of the users at all.

Hence why there are legitimate reasons to write bots snd continue the arms race - otherwise, we'll pretty soon end up in a world where YouTube's business model of "subscribe to premium so you we'll stop interrupting the videos when you minimize the app" will be the standard mode of operation.



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