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.”

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago

Counter: the Ads are why I don’t watch it much. I can only block them on some devices, limiting how I interact with the medium.

Management: um, uh, err, hmmmm

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