Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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24 points

Yeah we’re basically hurting their revenue by using Piped and other ways to bypass Google’s ads. They wouldn’t be profitable if everyone stopped watching those ads

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Noooooooooo! The poor google 😢

their $412,378/s has been reduced to $412,367/s! 😭 😭

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-38 points

Yeah, they should provide thousands of gigiabits of video streaming to everyone for free. It’s our right!

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It’s not for free. They use your data. Also most of these ‘free’ videos are made by enthusiasts.

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16 points

Big platforms tend to forget they’re big because they’re free. It’s our duty to remind them.

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12 points

I wish the product was somewhat good too. Piped has features that even YT Premium users don’t have.

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They print money, sorry i lost my pity for multi billion dollar internet giants.

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They’re making plenty of profit selling all of our data  and getting ad revenue from the 95%+ of other users who aren’t blocking them.

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5 points

I’d wager that it’s closer to 99.999%.

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4 points

Yeah since i don’t have any figures I just went sort of conservative with the estimate

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Exactly, you either get my data or my money. That’s how I feel about every service nowadays, I don’t think its unethical to subvert payment requirements when they have been selling my privacy for years.

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