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		gopiandcode on July 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which ... I think the difference here is that Piped is using a custom backend server (piped-backend) which scrapes youtube html to obtain the video content/metadata (a-la invidious), while your app was using the youtube API. Google is allowed to shut your app down, but AFAIK can't police who can and can't consume their publicly available HTML.

zibzab on July 18, 2021 [–]

Oh, they definitely try to shut down these products by constantly changing the page structure or using javascript to obfuscate things:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951

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