I’ve noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances

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GrayJay is still working.

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That’s proprietary non-libre so not an option unfortunately

Edit: Fixed technicality

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It’s open source, you just can’t fork it.

Edit, I’ll rephrase that. You can fork it and do whatever, even remove the “please donate” thing, but if you distribute any spy/malware versions they have legal avenues to force it to get taken down.

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That’s not a free software license though. Libre software must give you the right to run, study, modify and distribute the code. It doesn’t do that to my knowledge.

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That’s not open source, it’s source-available

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TBH it’s not proprietary either. I’m OK with such licensing because it helps the developers fuck the clowns over who try to take their code without even a thanks. The source is available to audit if you’d like. That’s what I really care about.

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you can keep your proprietary trash for yourself

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Another fosstard

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The amount of FOSS snobbery in this community is hilarious. You typed that comment on a proprietary device with proprietary hardware, probably running proprietary software (unless you’re on Linux, truly using ALL open source stuff, including RISC-V hardware, FOSS browser and network stack). But God forbid an app is just source available instead of truly FOSS. Gasp! The horror! You should complain about it using one of the completely closed-source Android/iPhone apps that you use every day.

LMAO

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I run GNU/Linux on a Corebooted laptop. That’s my main device and the one I normally use to access Lemmy.

And FYI, I don’t run any proprietary app on my phone which runs a free software build of Android. Everything is installed from F-Droid.

It’s true that it runs proprietary firmware, but there’s currently no way around it. Unlike Grayjay, which is proprietary just because their greedy creators didn’t want people forking their app.

Fortunately, Invidious, Piped, Libretube and Newpipe all exist and work flawlessly so there’s no excuse to use proprietary trash like that.

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I mean, this is a privacy community. The best way to ensure privacy is to be able (in theory) to inspect and modify without restriction the source of everything you are using. Seems natural and unsurprising that people who care about privacy would overwhelmingly prefer FOSS.

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Attack 🤦‍♂️

In what world is not responding to requests an “attack” 🤣

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Feel free to suck my cock instead of Google’s, if you need one so much.

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I bet you go around telling people piracy isn’t stealing 🤣

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stealing is when you take something and the original owner does not have it anymore, no?

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God I hope not, imma go check.

Edit: NewPipe still works.

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First thing I did when I read this. Works for me too. I’ll have to check Invidious later.

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I’m still using the original Vanced

*Touches wood

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My version of Vanced borked so i updated to revanced, seems pretty much the same to me.

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Grayjay, Newpipe and Freetube all still work

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