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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Decent YouTube client? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for an app to browse YouTube using multiple accounts. It has to be convenient to switch between multiple accounts, and keep them separate. I've struggled to find a YT client that does this well, most of them seem to advertise "Use YouTube without an account". I'd look on the app store but frankly the play store sketches me the fuck out, even though google has a "moderation system" (we all know how well they keep malware off the platform)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, reading that back, the above comment is maybe a bit harsh, because I hardly know anything about Grayjay specifically. They do seem to have a grander vision where they combine all kinds of services, not just YouTube, and maybe they really are hoping that Google won't ToS them.

But yeah, the way I imagine this will go down, is that Grayjay will grow for a bit, until Google notices losses from this new competitor. Then Grayjay will receive a letter that they're in violation of the YouTube ToS. Grayjay will try to get that resolved, but no one at Google responds. Eventually they'll be forced to take out the YouTube integration, making the app significantly less useful, which is its death sentence.

I don't quite understand how their monetization model works, so I don't know who will lose money here, but I imagine someone will.

Ultimately, they're building a business reliant on Google, which has never been a good idea.