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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[–] iod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't they block the likes of Freetube, Newpipe, Revanced?

[–] Anon@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These clients use the same set of APIs as the YouTube official client. Unlike the Twitter and Reddit clients which used APIs for 3rd-party.

[–] BlackSam@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Newpipe doesn't use youtube official API. It does webpage parsing afaik