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Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients? (self.privacy)

submitted 11 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/[email protected]

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I've noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you decide to draw the line at GrayJay just because it's only source available?

I draw the line at the firmware level, yes, because sadly it's insanely difficult to get a device that can be 100% free software. But from the OS level and up, everything that runs in my devices is free software. That of course includes apps. And Grayjay is no exception to that.

Source available or proprietary is the same to me, it restricts my freedoms as a computer user to not be able to freely modify and distribute my programs as I please.

Actually, I'd prefer for the Grayjay devs just to make it fully proprietary instead of falsely claiming it to be "open source" and using it as marketing. I have no problem with people using proprietary or source available programs. What bothers me are the misleading claims of the creator calling Grayjay open source, when clearly it is not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can't you still modify and distribute Grayjay, just not commercially? I understand that still prevents the app from being considered open source, but their reasoning is valid IMO (to prevent people from making ad-infested clones on the play store, which has happened with NewPipe before).