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you can get your whole Google account suspended by using newpipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
by perlpimp 7y ago
you can get your whole Google account suspended by using newpipe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
- jowsie 7y agoNo idea how common this is, but that particular case seems to most likely be fabricated.
- lucb1e 7y agoWhile I was also under the impression that this is probably not true (since you can't actually log in with Newpipe), I've been waiting for them to crack down on it from the day I learned of it. Wouldn't surprise me if it stopped working when enough people start to use it. Related, a few weeks ago they cracked down on Yalp (a Play Store front-end: basically an open source implementation of their internal APIs). I'm not sure if/when they're going to ease up on that, but until then, it looks like I'm stuck with whatever selection of apps (and versions) I've got at the moment.
- Marsymars 7y agoI would pay a monthly subscription fee to Google to have the Play Store be ad free.
- lucb1e 7y agoI'd also happily pay for a store that isn't based on Google's usual profit model (tracking you) or contributes towards a monopoly (Alphabet and Internet services in general). Heck, at this point I'd be happy to pay Microsoft for apk hosting and search since they're not a monopoly in online services or own Android or anything.
- dastx 7y agoNewPipe has no way for you to login or any thing like that, so if your account does get suspended on this premise, then people should be way more worried about Google's practices than they are.