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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection::Irish eyes may not be smiling

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YT's push into ad-blocker blocking did the same for me that Reddit's API change did, that being it was enough of a push for me to stop using their platform. In Reddit's case, I get my fix from Lemmy and in YT's case, I use Freetube to watch videos. In both cases, I'm sure they're not losing money in my absence but I do feel better not giving them the data that I used to.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Louis Rossmann can go to fuck himself and his source available app that he keeps calling open source.

Newpipe existed long before Grayjay and will probably be there when grayjay dies since Newpipe's license allows community forks. If the Newpipe team ceases development, others will take their place. If Rossmann ceases development, his app is left for dead

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If only newpipe didn't suck so hard though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Users telling developers to fuck themselves is a irony lost in these threads. How many open source projects do you maintain?

[+] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope this license is temporary because this license is non-free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.

note how this explicitly leaves out modification.

You may provide the code to anyone else and publish excerpts of it for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution, provided that when you do so you make any recipient of the code aware of the terms of this license, they must agree to be bound by the terms of this license and you must attribute the code to the provider

once again, they exclude modification of the code.

no forks can be made because they aren't allowed to modify the app in anyway.

Additionally, the termination clauses say that they can just terminate your rights to use the code if they feel like it, no other reason needed. This is a direct attack against open source.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've got Grayjay on my phone but I very rarely watch YT on it so I've not really used it yet. Almost 100% of my watching happens on the PC and I've absolutely fallen in love with Freetube. No shorts spam, sponsorblock, more useful features on the player, it's pretty fantastic.