@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoYouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockerswww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1487
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minus-square@alexdeathway@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-211 months agoELI5 why google won’t pull reddit on youtube API?
minus-square@AnActOfCreation@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglish26•11 months agoYouTube already has ToS on their API and has paid tiers. But a lot (most?) of the third-party apps and tools bypass the API and directly scrape the site.
minus-square@AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoGo to any major publication, and I mean absolutely any one, and there is a solid chance there is at least a single YT embed. If they try to Reddit their API they’re going to lose much, much more than just giving it away
minus-square@alexdeathway@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoX(Twitter) did it, that’s why i am little concerned.
ELI5 why google won’t pull reddit on youtube API?
YouTube already has ToS on their API and has paid tiers. But a lot (most?) of the third-party apps and tools bypass the API and directly scrape the site.
Because YouTube is embedded a lot
Go to any major publication, and I mean absolutely any one, and there is a solid chance there is at least a single YT embed.
If they try to Reddit their API they’re going to lose much, much more than just giving it away
X(Twitter) did it, that’s why i am little concerned.