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YouTube --> PeerTube Next? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did... you know... and we're on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://tutanota.com/blog/google-youtube-invidious-privacy-alternative

Google is probably going to kill private front ends rather sooner than later. First signs are already there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Except they can't - invidious uses the same front end APIs as the YouTube website. It probably also does web scraping.

Sure it's a violation of TOS(frontend TOS - not API TOS) but because it latches on to publicly available parts of the YouTube system (in a similar way to yt-dlp) it's essentially got a free pass - you can't stop people from using freely accessible parts however they want. As a result it's not able to use the accounts system (or at least, it shouldn't be.

Yt doesn't really have a leg to stand on.. it might not stop them from trying to sue. But in the very least it won't stop people from forking the invidious code and building their own in a sort of striesand effect. Even if the original product dies, invidious as a whole won't, and can't die.