AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1年前YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockerswww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkYouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockerswww.androidpolice.comAnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1年前message-square74fedilink
minus-squarealexdeathway@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21年前ELI5 why google won’t pull reddit on youtube API?
minus-squareAnActOfCreation@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1年前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.
minus-squareDrewelite@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1年前So why aren’t there reddit apps that do the same?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1年前Because YouTube is embedded a lot
minus-squarealexdeathway@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1年前X(Twitter) did it, that’s why i am little concerned.
ELI5 why google won’t pull reddit on youtube API?
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.
So why aren’t there reddit apps that do the same?
Geddit is one.
Because fuck reddit.
Because YouTube is embedded a lot
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X(Twitter) did it, that’s why i am little concerned.