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My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they're doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn't be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won't be able to soon.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's a common theory that the only reason they went after Vanced is because the Vanced team tried to monetize the mod by introducing NFTs

[โ€“] TwilightVulpine 5 points 2 years ago

Many people in modding and fan communities convince themselves that companies only go after projects if they try to make money, but we also see that happening with free projects all the time, if they get enough attention.

Seeing that Google is already sending warnings to people who try to watch YouTube with adblockers, I don't think that's what made the difference.