[rodalpho]

Plausible, but to explain this to a user would be a pain...to generate an API-Key you must be authenticated and sometimes you have to (based on the service of Google) provide your phone-number or creditcard...no way

Let's not rush and wait whats really going one...at the moment it seems to work...also the history. Nobody will die because YouTube for KODI isn't working

Yes, it was a pain for the twitter clients that had to do the same thing, but it was the only way for them to function. Agree it should be plan B.

Ultimately, as long as we don't show their advertisements, google is incentivized to block our access. And even if we do show their ads, they often have corporate goals that don't align with what users want-- for example, they blocked youtube clients on windows phone even when microsoft disallowed video downloading and showed their ads, because they wanted to promote android.

Exactly like twitter, google really wants youtube users to use the standard HTML5 youtube client, because they completely control the experience. They haven't completely cut off API users because that would cause more fuss than slowly choking them to death through ever more nonsensical and painful restrictions.