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YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

ELI5 why google won't pull reddit on youtube API?

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

YouTube already has ToS on their API and has paid tiers. But a lot (most?) of the third-party apps and tools bypass the API and directly scrape the site.

[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So why aren't there reddit apps that do the same?

[–] Saxoboneless@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'm sure there's an in-depth reason for it, but there is one that scrapes Old Reddit, instead of the main site, and it works great for me (Stealth on f-droid). There's also RedReader, a client that was allowed to keep API access because of it's accessibility features... which I guess Reddit just couldn't be bothered to implement into their own app.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Because fuck reddit.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 months ago

Because YouTube is embedded a lot

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Go to any major publication, and I mean absolutely any one, and there is a solid chance there is at least a single YT embed.

If they try to Reddit their API they're going to lose much, much more than just giving it away

[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

X(Twitter) did it, that's why i am little concerned.