How do you think monopoly regulators would like it if YouTube videos were indexed with higher accuracy and detail in google searches than Vimeo video? So sure,

How do you think monopoly regulators would like it if YouTube videos were indexed with higher accuracy and detail in google searches than Vimeo video? So sure, google can say ‘here’s a standard way to provide subtitles for a video which we’ll index’, but then that becomes a complete SEO side channel - google needs to validate that the subtitles actually match the content. And that means their bots downloading the video itself. And google really doesn’t want to go out there and argue that video needs to be downloadable by bots, because that’s the whole YouTube-dl case right there.