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[โ€“] Prometheus 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they have a way to cut off FreeTube? I just started using it recently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In theory they can cut off everything, but it takes some more intrusive behavior on your phone. Essentially they can build a layer required to authenticate your phone as unmodified before allowing it to access any content, using a special api.