Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
schwim@reddthat.com 11 months ago
YT’s push into ad-blocker blocking did the same for me that Reddit’s API change did, that being it was enough of a push for me to stop using their platform. In Reddit’s case, I get my fix from Lemmy and in YT’s case, I use Freetube to watch videos. In both cases, I’m sure they’re not losing money in my absence but I do feel better not giving them the data that I used to.
n3m37h@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Grayjay.app Thank Louis Rossmann & FUTO
long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Louis Rossmann can go to fuck himself and his source available app that he keeps calling open source.
Newpipe existed long before Grayjay and will probably be there when grayjay dies since Newpipe’s license allows community forks. If the Newpipe team ceases development, others will take their place. If Rossmann ceases development, his app is left for dead
ink@r.nf 11 months ago
Users telling developers to fuck themselves is a irony lost in these threads. How many open source projects do you maintain?
worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 11 months ago
If only newpipe didn’t suck so hard though.
BURN@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Source available is open source by definition. Get mad at other things, but that is absolutely a fair description
long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
by definition?
the Free Software Foundation, the ones that started the whole idea of sharing code as a philosophy of software, do not consider source available as free software or “open source”.
It does not meet Eric S Raymond’s definition, the one who invented the term “open source”.
It does not meet the Open Source Initiative definition either.
Even Wikipedia gives the right definition of open source:
So stop defending Rossmann and admit that the app is not open source.
n3m37h@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unless I am reading thus wrong, I do believe you are wrong here
FUTO TEMPORARY LICENSE
license grants you the rights, and only the rights, set out below in respect of the source code provided. If you take advantage of these rights, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not access the code. Words used in the Terms of Service have the same meaning in this license. Where there is any inconsistency between this license and those Terms of Service, these terms prevail.
Section 1: Definitions
Section 2: Grant of Rights
Section 3: Limitations
Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
Section 5: General
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope this license is temporary because this license is non-free.
long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
note how this explicitly leaves out modification.
once again, they exclude modification of the code.
no forks can be made because they aren’t allowed to modify the app in anyway.
schwim@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I’ve got Grayjay on my phone but I very rarely watch YT on it so I’ve not really used it yet. Almost 100% of my watching happens on the PC and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with Freetube. No shorts spam, sponsorblock, more useful features on the player, it’s pretty fantastic.