Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers

alexdeathway@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube already has ToS on their API and has paid tiers. But a lot (most?) of the third-party apps and tools bypass the API and directly scrape the site.

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  • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So why aren’t there reddit apps that do the same?

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    • MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Geddit is one.

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    • Saxoboneless@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure there’s an in-depth reason for it, but there is one that scrapes Old Reddit, instead of the main site, and it works great for me (Stealth on f-droid). There’s also RedReader, a client that was allowed to keep API access because of it’s accessibility features… which I guess Reddit just couldn’t be bothered to implement into their own app.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because fuck reddit.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because YouTube is embedded a lot

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• AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go to any major publication, and I mean absolutely any one, and there is a solid chance there is at least a single YT embed.

  If they try to Reddit their API they’re going to lose much, much more than just giving it away

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  • alexdeathway@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X(Twitter) did it, that’s why i am little concerned.

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