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 it’s just the start.

Assume they’ll ask GitHub to takedown the repos (if so go to our Gitea https://gitea.invidious.io/iv-org ).

Assume the team wont be able to work on Invidious.

You know what you have to do.

May Invidious live and prosper, with, or without us.

PS: We won’t do anything unless we have to.

PS-2: If we are forced to quit, any funds remaining will go to Framasoft (and maybe some other organization working on FOSS/privacy)

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I didn’t know Invidious existed until this happened. Barbara Streisand effect in full swing

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Jesus its like Elon Musk was the prophet for the Fuckheads Who Will Ruin The Internet For Money. Big Tech can suck my asshole.

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Google and Youtube have been sucking [insert preferred pejorative metaphor here] for ages; Musk just says the quiet part out loud.

But at least people are listening

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They’ve all been waiting for the first domino to fall for a while. No one wants to be the first one to make a naked money grab, but once someone does, everyone gets to move.

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Oh my, good luck to the Invidious team, I hope this will be resolved quickly and without the need of lawyers.

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Does that mean they will also be targeting Piped?

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I really hope not. Piped has been the only way I use youtube for a while now and it’s a far better experience then actually having to use their web app.

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Google and the rest of these types of companies are constantly targeting possible competitors/alternatives with their legal wing. They’ll just sit and collect as much data as they can until they feel its the right opportunity to hit them with a DMCA or some other legal crap they can get away with since they have legal teams on the payroll.

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Best of luck to them.

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