With a growing subset of YouTube’s users becoming more aware of how the platform is monetized, YouTube appears to be paying greater attention to those with a preference to opt out, whether that’s through browser extensions like uBlock Origin or other methods that require even less effort.
I hadn’t heard of Invidious prior to this whole thing. Now I am using it.
Happy video watching without tracking 🙂
For 7 days :(
The Streisand effect is a beautiful beautiful thing isn’t it
Freetube for PC, SmartTubeNext for android tv, invidious for browsers
And Revanced for normal Android
Or LibreTube, especially since Revanced needs Android 8+.
Oh my god, do I have to resign from another one corporate shit just after reddit? :)
And again the fediverse is waiting with open arms
Is there an actual fediverse alternative to YouTube oder video hosting in general?
PeerTube
It’s called PeerTube
Yes, there’s Peertube.
Unlike with Reddit, this was already clearly and obviously against terms of service.
IIRC, you can make an alternative front end to YouTube, but it has to include the video ads. Somewhat ironically, many of those aren’t even from YouTube themselves, but especially on videos with music, they’re assigned by the RIAA to cover licensing costs.
If Reddit had done what YouTube does and just added a requirement for apps to display the sponsored posts, there would certainly be some mildly annoyed users, but it would not have come to the current level.
That’s only if you agree to the developer TOS. Invidious doesn’t use the Developer API and as such never agreed to the associated TOS. This is against a terms of service that is not relevant to Invidious.
You have to agree to it in order to view YouTube. If the software doesn’t present those terms, it in itself is in violation.
#1 No, this is not in the end user’s terms. The Terms presented to end users only speak of advertisement in how they may be served to the user, and in how as a creator, users must abide by the Advertising on Youtube Policies
#2 It’s extremely questionable that their TOS is legally enforceable anyways in this instance as it doesn’t meet the legal threshold for a browsewrap agreement, i.e. an agreement made legally binding by a user’s continued use of a service. Browsewrap agreements require that the language and placement of the website’s terms are submitted to the user in the form of some sort of notice or notification. No such thing is required in order to use Youtube. Of course, this goes out the Window once you have an account, as then you’ve entered a clickwrap agreement with Google’s entire ecosystem, but before that, Youtube does not even attempt to enter a browsewrap agreement with users.
Streisand ftw.
