Comment on Grayjay: A new app that merges different video platforms into one

• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  look, I understand you’re all followers this “influencer” or whatever. But this is not a novelty feature. Newpipe has been allowing access to YouTube videos in a similar matter for a long, long time. And their app is truly free software, anyone’s able to view, edit and distribute the code.

  So if this dev is artificially telling everyone that the reason for them using a not open/libre license is to impede people putting trackers on top, that’s absurd.

  Specially taking into account that real a malicious actor won’t give a fuck about the license, take the code and put ads or whatever anyway.

  This license is only effectively restricting community forks

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Specially taking into account that real a malicious actor won’t give a fuck about the license, take the code and put ads or whatever anyway.

    They can sue his ass. New Pipe cant

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      try suing someone in a country like Russia, China or any other where this things are super hard to enforce. At most, they can request Google to remove them from the PlayStore.

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      • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        good luck suing someone in a country like Russia, China or any other where these things are super hard to enforce

        Those countries have their own domestic solutions already, rutube and bilibili. Why would they care about an app that only caters to western media products and monetary contribution sites?

        At most, they can request Google to remove them from the PlayStore which they will be already doing because this is an app for YouTube without ads, which I’m pretty sure breaks Google’s terms of service

        This is not an app for YouTube without ads though, and it is published on the play store already…

        there’s not a real advantage on restricting forks, other than the original dev are trying to promote a paid tier so they can make a profit or something.

        Well, no point having a discussion here if you didn’t even spend 2 mins to read the manifesto of the company that owns the app.

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• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this is the dumbest fucking analogy I’ve ever heard. yes, Linux is the equivalent of letting people break your windows and stab you with the broken glass. A tier brain rot take

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