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Invidious: "YouTube legal team contacted us" (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by noodlejetski@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] bear_delune@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ArtVandelay@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Not that you're wrong about that parasite, but YouTube already went after youtube-dl a few years ago (can't remember exactly when), so this doesn't surprise me.