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I use NewPipe frequently. It's rumored that Vanced was sent a cease and desist (which seems pretty likely). Out of curiosity, what are the chances that NewPipe
by sphars 5y ago
I use NewPipe frequently. It's rumored that Vanced was sent a cease and desist (which seems pretty likely). Out of curiosity, what are the chances that NewPipe will face the same fate?
- adithyassekhar 5y agoLast I've heard they don't even use the YouTube APIs, just parses the website. So they're probably fine.
- rchaud 5y agoC&D is almost certainly what happened. The wording of the tweet makes that clear, as they aren't attributing it to something like someone leaving the team.
- andy_ppp 5y agoI find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
- hyperhopper 5y agoThis is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoNot exactly "scraping", but YT became popular largely through hosting pirated content, which is close.
- andy_ppp 5y agoSo you’re saying it’s fine to be a hypocrite as long as the corporate structure absolves you of direct liability? As the sibling also points out, YouTube was directly founded on illegal content.
- rOOb85 5y agoIf I remember right, Vanced is the official YouTube app that was decompiled and modified. Where newpipe is an open source standalone app that uses no Google code or apis.