Yesterday I was about to watch my wakeup dose of Electronics related videos from various channels when the Kodi Youtube player suddenly refused to play anything, returning the error "Project (long number here) has been scheduled for deletion and ..." etc. I also tried other addons and a good number of them were affected.
A quick search confirmed that they are forcing users to create their own keys since the apps developers ones are now (or will be soon) invalid. This creates a privacy problem, since now all video searches on Youtube by 3rd party apps using their API can be easily matched to the viewer through the key: users with Kodi (or any formerly anonymous service using that API) on their laptop, can now be tracked around when they use it from work, friend's house etc.
Do I have to become a product to watch Youtube videos from my bed now?
How long since this nonsense comes to PCs too?
Some context about the issue:
https://old.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/f5dlsn/error_with_youtube_addon_settings_keep_opening/