[Feature request] Enhanced birate without Premium option

[GKid94]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Add an option to use the enhanced bitrate without Premium for all users

Is it a change to the extension's functionality or to the pop-up settings page?

Extension's functionality

If the latter, please propose a new design on Figma or describe it as detailed as possible

No response

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[avi12]

How exactly can the extension magically apply enhanced bitrate? As soon as a non-Premium user clicks the 1080p Premium, YouTube will ask him to start a Premium subscription

[GKid94]

Maybe fake the Premium version?

[avi12]

Good luck with doing that, I definitely can't come up with a way Not to mention that it would definitely be against YouTube's ToS

[GKid94]

Isn't blocking ads too and people still do it?

[avi12]

I admittedly didn't dig into the YouTube ToS, nor am I a lawyer, but I do know that some things are illegal while others aren't illegal For example, blocking ads isn't perhaps illegal, but letting the user download videos for free is probably illegal, due to which Vanced was taken down

Let me give you another perspective: a few years ago I made YouTube Downloader and about two months ago, after pushing an update to YouTube Auto HD, a Chrome Web Store reviewer staff decided to enter my website and back then YouTube Downloader was listed as a product As soon as he saw it, he decided to completely take down YouTube Auto HD from Chrome Web Store, claiming that it lets unauthorized users download videos, while in practice he meant that YouTube Downloader does that

[GKid94]

I admittedly didn't dig into the YouTube ToS, nor am I a lawyer, but I do know that some things are illegal while others aren't illegal For example, blocking ads isn't perhaps illegal, but letting the user download videos for free is probably illegal, due to which Vanced was taken down

Let me give you another perspective: a few years ago I made YouTube Downloader and about two months ago, after pushing an update to YouTube Auto HD, a Chrome Web Store reviewer staff decided to enter my website and back then YouTube Downloader was listed as a product As soon as he saw it, he decided to completely take down YouTube Auto HD from Chrome Web Store, claiming that it lets unauthorized users download videos, while in practice he meant that YouTube Downloader does that

Weird