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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What about ReVanced? Should be safe, since it's just a modded version of the official YT app, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately that's more likely a strike against them than in their favor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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 .