I meant what I said. Companies are allowed to be rude to everyone but it's still bad for them to be rude.

Rude that they don't give you free unencumbered access?

When they got the content for free, usually yes.

Youtube pays 60% of revenue to creators...

Youtube is pretty much fine. Outside of a few janky age restrictions, you can just go to youtube and watch videos.

Remember right at the start: "There's no reason you can't abolish login walls while still serving ads." This is how youtube works.

X is the one blocking or messing up views without accounts (and also being too likely to ban accounts that don't give a phone number).

Though most people posting on youtube are doing it for free or negligible revenue (I'm not sure how it works out on a per-view basis), and a lot of the rest make almost all their money elsewhere.