Yep in a technical sense they are except they could get sued to hell idk how anonymous the newpipe devs kepp them selves but if they are not I’d say they don’t stand a chance to win a lawsuit against google .
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ji59@kbin.social 5 months ago
NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you're using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don't need an account on any service to use NewPipe.
So NewPipe doesn't use yt API and it never accepted its terms, so NewPipe is safe (from my understanding)
The_Mastermind@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What about ReVanced? Should be safe, since it’s just a modded version of the official YT app, right?
skulblaka@startrek.website 5 months ago
Unfortunately that’s more likely a strike against them than in their favor