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Google seems to be blocking API access for Piped video servers (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by negativenull@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to be popular saying this but how is the service supposed to survive without a revenue stream? It takes a shit ton of bandwidth and storage to keep YouTube running, that ain't free.

I get that the ads are incredibly annoying but if you truly watch as much YouTube as some people in this thread are claiming, maybe it's worth paying for it? I bit the bullet and for basically the price of my cancelled Spotify subscription I now have no ads in YT and an okay streaming service with yt music.

Of course Google could do things better. And actually I think it would be important to have a competitor. But I wouldn't expect that one to be free either.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is c/privacy. Are you really advocating for pouring money on the company (Google) that's doing everything it can to get to know everyone and use the information for showing deceiving ads, among other things? Or the company that supports false political propaganda? (In the form of paid advertisements). Support your creators, thats a very good thing, but for the love of god please do not fund this data mining machine.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really am! If they don't get money, and they don't get data, and they (obviously) don't get donations, how are they supposed to run the service? Out of the goodness of their hearts?