YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious
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They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...
  • Excusable7798@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Terribly obvious how little they actually understand what invidious is or does. I just hope GitHub has a backbone and understands how little recourse they have over what they perceive as a breach of their TOS when that doesn’t even factor.

  • NoTime@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reddit, YouTube, Twitter - it seems like all companies want to suddenly shut down third party apps. Coincidence or is there something larger at play here?

    • orbit@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You’d be surprised how many company decisions are made by CEO A just reading news of CEO B doing a thing and just also wanting to do it.

    • MrWiggles@prime8s.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They don’t get to sell as much of your attention with third party apps. It’s money out of their pocket, the way they see it. The irony is they don’t actually produce any content. jus tleech off those who do.

      • NoTime@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I know why they are doing it, but I was wondering more about the timing. These have all been around for years but it seems recently there is a sudden push to remove third party apps.

        Is there a new technology coming out, a new law, or as @orbit@beehaw.org says is it just CEOs copying each other?

        • surrendertogravity@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          My personal suspicion is that it has something to do with Apple’s changes around data collection - I’m not well versed in all the details but this article describes the overall changes in more depth. IMO, with first-party data collection becoming more important for Youtube and Reddit so they can sell more valuable ad space to other companies, they need to force everyone into their owned app to have the opportunity to collect that data.