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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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    sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    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?
    
    This argument is absurd. Why would they care? They do not care about western media, but malicious developers living in such countries will try to make some money by inserting ads and distributing the app, for example. Or just putting malware.
    
    This is not an app for YouTube without ads though, and it is published on the play store already…
    
    I’m aware, I used YouTube because in the video they used Newpipe as a direct comparison.
    
    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.
    
    I read the whole web page, and all I can see is an app that is purposefully restricting forks, so they want to be the only ones distributing it. That alone makes me suspicious that there must be some reason like paywalling it in the future or adding some way of making them money. Of course they are not doing it at launch, but it’s something to be cautious about specially when looking at the license.
    
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    EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Those countries have their own domestic solutions already, rutube and bilibili No idea about bilibili, but rutube is pretty much dead and a complete laughingstock. Everyone there uses Youtube.
    
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