It’s a grey area between what is malicious and what isn’t. A lot of people aren’t going to agree. ytdl is a great example of that. For Google, it’s “stealing”

It’s a grey area between what is malicious and what isn’t. A lot of people aren’t going to agree. ytdl is a great example of that. For Google, it’s “stealing” people from their platform by allowing individuals to download content in a way that doesn’t increase engagement and ad views. I don’t personally agree that ytdl is malicious but I do understand how some could make that claim. Then what about tools that are legitimately intended for research purposes but could still be abused? The problem with freedoms is they have to work both ways: if you aren’t prepared to allow abuse of that freedom then you certainly aren’t going to allow legitimate but unpopular uses either.