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YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So why aren't there reddit apps that do the same?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm sure there's an in-depth reason for it, but there is one that scrapes Old Reddit, instead of the main site, and it works great for me (Stealth on f-droid). There's also RedReader, a client that was allowed to keep API access because of it's accessibility features... which I guess Reddit just couldn't be bothered to implement into their own app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Because fuck reddit.