In a 2025 deposition of John Harding, the Vice President of Engineering for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, lawyers representing more than 10,000 plaintiffs confronted Harding about the apparent admission.
"Goal is not viewership, it’s viewer addiction,” an unnamed YouTube employee noted in the email to others. The note appeared to be part of a collection of thoughts from something called “iOS Creator App review.”
I used to use that but I’ve switched to Grayjay which lets you also connect a bunch of other platforms.
I don’t use any of those other things (hell I barely use the ones I did connect) so I have no idea how they work, but this might be useful to someone.