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What's looking worse is the actual joke of a response from one of the developers.
"Lawyers hate this one weird trick."
In my experience, thinking you've found a loophole legally because it is using boilerplate language usually ends really badly. If you're not a lawyer, don't assume you're as smart as a lawyer when it comes to law, and definitely don't think your flowery prose means fuck all in court. Just because it wasn't addressed directly to this guy doesn't make this magically go away.
Relavent related links:
https://invidious.io/team/
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty
Indeed, if I were the developers I would be threading much more carefully. While it may be true that the letter is not precise enough, access to YouTube implies a relative acceptance of the terms of service of providing the service, and it is not so clear cut as Invidious claims.
This just makes me think of Kleiman v. Wright, where Craig Wright (among many, many other shenanigans) claimed that a printout of an email wasn't an email, it was a piece of paper. That didn't end up going the way he wanted.