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 ...
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?
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?
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
Stupid. It is like someone getting mad that I can download a website and have an arvhived copy.
If something is publicly available, I get to have it.
I feel strongly about this for any art. Creators are so desparate to shove their stuff into our senses and get paid for it. No one is ever obliged to spend their time and resources on anything people make.
If you don't want someone to steal your work, keep it to yourself.
If the art actually mattered, if the message was important and necessary, it would be given away, there would be no barrier.
Anyways, the monetization system is fucked and rewards the worst people. Google will never get my money ever again.
Terribly obvious how little they actually understand what invidious is or does. I just hope GitHub has a backbone and understands how little recourse they have over what they perceive as a breach of their TOS when that doesn't even factor.
They belatedly stood up for youtube-dl so there is a bit of hope, but it's still Microsoft we are talking about here. It's good that they have a self-hosted backup and more projects should consider moving off GitHub so they aren't at the mercy of spurious DMCA claims.
Is it likely that other scrapers like NewPipe will also be taken down? I'm a little afraid since I rely on it to entertain myself on my repaired older flagship phone.
Probably by scraping. Scraping is what you implement an API to avoid, its basically the client masquerading as a web browser and then extracting the data it wants from whatever the website sends out.
It's bad for services because iy involves sending much more data and filling more requests. It's bad for the developer of the client because scraping is more complex and breaks whenever they revise the website layout or anything like that.
But if you're going to pull a twitter, you get what you deserve.