Are you trolling? No enterprise would ever compete with free. They will scream for an onerous legislative solution, which will make all our lives more difficult.

I wish pirate streaming operations a speedy death.

I suspect a lot of users with silly warnings in their profile like OP described haven't bothered configuring their Upload/Download preferences. The tools for managing slot numbers and queue scheme (round robin v. FIFO) are all there.

Alternative frontends don't fall under piracy by any definition. Youtube's servers are publicly accessible.

THEY KNOW

SHUT IT DOWN

This write-up articulates the issues from the perspective of a security lecturer. The core issue really is ownership of technology.

https://techrights.org/o/2021/11/29/teaching-cybersecurity/

Whatever the appearance of competition between, say, Apple and Facebook, Big-Tech companies collude to maintain interlocking systems of controls that enforce each others shared values including sabotage of interoperability, security and inviting regulation upon themselves to better keep down smaller competitors. Big-Tech comes with its own value system that it imposes on our culture.

The threats are what keep us alert, circumspect and fleet-footed in our use of web technology. Always have done.

I want to view multiple tabs at once, in a split-page view where I can scroll on one tab, then mouse-over to another and start independently scrolling on that one. It's probably the key feature I miss from Vivaldi. Is there some insurmountable obstacle in the engine that prevents implementation, or is it stubborn devs?

No one with a passive user mindset will appreciate Lemmy in its current states. There's no algorithmic feed. It isn't pre-populated with stuff they like. Active curation is required. Slow updates aren't seen by this set as an advantage (my attention isn't being constantly funnelled toward nonsense) but a deficiency (I can't doomscroll; 'if the place isn't busy it mustn't be good').

It probably also has to do with a collective loss of any sense of ownership of digital space. I too would treat the web as an appliance (or television) if I thought I was a guest everywhere I went.