YouTube legal team contacted Invidious
YouTube legal team contacted Invidious
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...
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Reddit, YouTube, Twitter - it seems like all companies want to suddenly shut down third party apps. Coincidence or is there something larger at play here?
You'd be surprised how many company decisions are made by CEO A just reading news of CEO B doing a thing and just also wanting to do it.
I suppose, especially when there is money to be made and/or saved.
They don't get to sell as much of your attention with third party apps. It's money out of their pocket, the way they see it. The irony is they don't actually produce any content. jus tleech off those who do.
I know why they are doing it, but I was wondering more about the timing. These have all been around for years but it seems recently there is a sudden push to remove third party apps.
Is there a new technology coming out, a new law, or as @[email protected] says is it just CEOs copying each other?
My personal suspicion is that it has something to do with Apple's changes around data collection - I'm not well versed in all the details but this article describes the overall changes in more depth. IMO, with first-party data collection becoming more important for Youtube and Reddit so they can sell more valuable ad space to other companies, they need to force everyone into their owned app to have the opportunity to collect that data.
thats the nub of it.
"you must not profit from the content we did not create"
The era of cheap money that started in the West in the early 90s ended with covid, but these companies all have VC and other investors to pay back at extremely high interest rates