As part of our return to following the plain language of section 706, we propose to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500Mbps established in the 2024 Report. Not only is a long-term goal not mentioned in section 706, but maintaining such a goal risks skewing the market by unnecessarily potentially picking technological winners and losers.
YouTube's recent expansion of ad-blocking measures aims to close loopholes exploited by browsers and third-party extensions, but user backlash remains significant.