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Just because it has been that way in the past absolutely does not mean it works that way in the future.
What happens when they force login, then when they detect discrepancies in watch time vs watch + ad time and they ban your account?
What happens when they force ads to play before you get the main roll and simply don't send you any video streams for 5 minutes?
What happens when they force screen recording rights to make sure you're displaying ads on mobile devices?
What happens when they start using DRM and roll the encryption so often yt-dlp becomes useless?
The theoretical myriad isn't any bigger than their theoretical ways to break that myriad, but the catch is that they're funded.
There are LOTS of ways they could shut it down that are beyond checking agents and changing API's around.
They pull that wild bullshit and users will drop like flies lol, AND there would STILL be ways around it both in terms of tech/coding as well as old fashioned methods.