I question whether lawyers are smart enough to understand what API means sometimes… They clearly aren’t using YouTube’s API so the whole letter is just false accusation. Maybe read the code first before making stupid allegations? No? This is a shitty for profit company? Makes sense in the current landscape I guess, all the shitty for profit services want to drive themselves into the ground for no reason now.
I’ll be honest i haven’t read their code. So invidious is just scraping youtube to pull all the data?
According to the GitHub thread, yes. I think that’s how all of the open source apps work - youtube-dl, NewPipe, Invidious at least. Using the API would open them up to legal trouble because you have to agree to the terms to use the API. You don’t agree to the terms when scraping.
Things escalated, folks. They got a C&D:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/
Start backing up the source repos now.
So… Maybe I’m wrong about this, but doesn’t Invidious basically do the same thing that Google AMP claims to do. Cache scraped web data and return it to users in a fasterprivate, and more direct way? Maybe Google should be agreeing to more TOSs =]
Well, I just learned about Invidious from this post. So that is nice.
