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      YouTube legal wants Futo to release apis and user data to them as they believe Grayjay is violating their terms.

      Grayjay doesn’t store user data nor is it using their APIs so the terms don’t apply

      Futo will not be removing Grayjay and won’t be complying with a request that cannot be fulfilled.

      Other details:

      • YouTube Premium’s download feature still requires an Internet connection to access content downloaded.

      • Louis makes the point of being tired of paying for products and services that end up giving you less and less, which is part of the reason why Grayjay was created

      • Content creators shouldn’t fear of being banned by an temperamental AI that could cripple their livelihood without an explanation which Grayjay attempts to solve as viewers can still access their content on Rumble, Twitch and other platforms if they get banned on Youtube.

      Good on Louis for sticking to his guns.

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      YouTube sent him a cease and desist for an app he is creating/distributing claiming that the app is using YouTubes API in an app but apparently the app doesn’t use the API. So he basically replied “No, we aren’t using that data, check our open-source code” and that he has no plans on stopping

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      What makes it not Foss? The source code is available and you can build it yourself if you want to

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          Care to explain? Because that’s literally the definition of open source

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            Nope. Its not the definition of open source. Its the defenition of “source availiable”

            Real open source defenition : https://opensource.org/osd

            Real Free Software defenition : https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

            Have a good read. If you want tl;dr, here is it

            Open source is a developement methodology in which software is licensed with the permission for everyone to collaborate and develop it. Anyone has the freedom to modify and contribute to it.

            Free software is a matter of freedom. It refers to the 4 essential freedoms a software should have, that is freedom to use, modify, share copies and share modified copies for the community however you want without restriction.

            FOSS is software that fits both theese defenitions. While practically almost all free software are open source and almost all open source software are free software, but there are few exeptions

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      The old „but if we dont pay them all our money they might stahp!“

      They wont.

      Do you know how I know? Because youtube (google) is a predatory monopolist and they will always find ways to take as much as they can.

      I‘m not rossmans biggest fan but he seems to have understood that its time to take off the kiddie gloves. I blocked everything and anything resembling youtube making money off me, I dont watch youtube content if I can help it and I dont upload anymore. I do upload and watch regularly in the fediverse and I‘m telling everyone to do the same.

      I do my duty as a citizen of this planet so that we hopefully wont end up in some cyberpunk-like hellscape at some point. I encourage you to help.

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      The app will also link all platforms. If you subscribe to Louis for example you will also get his videos on Odysee, Rumble and whatever else he has. That’s what this string in his channel info does: 4Y1IC54hpe60aqaLCgjn7zlcSMH/IPxh5/cLnX6RKp0=

      So if Youtube finally bans him, nothing will change for Grayjay users.

      That’s the real point of Grayjay I think. It aggregates Youtube, Twitch and all the other stuff. Nice side effect is getting rid of all the ads and providing its own spam free, uncensored comment section.

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    I was just looking for a YouTube frontend alternative to install on a LineageOS device and this post pops up on my feed. Straisand effect at its finest.

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    So… when I want to control content I’m consuming, I get the .mp3 or .pdf or whatever it is I’m interested in.

    How is grayjay a more reliable manner of being in control of my content on cross country drives ir wherever? I’m not tracking here. Why would anyone choose grayjay over simply controlling their own drives?

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      Because Grayjay allows users to follow others across multiple platforms such as Rumble, Odyssey and Twitch. So if they get banned off YouTube, they will still be able to access content on other platforms.

      And with Grayjay, you can download these videos and access them without needing to connect to the internet which is required for YouTube Premium despite the content being downloaded on the YouTube app.

      I’m not quite following what is your confusion when he outlined the problem Grayjay is trying to solve.

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        I collect actual media files — it’s easy and perfectly reliable. We’ve been doing it since 1997. Why do anything else?

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            I don’t really know anything about grey Jay. I just know how to create my own archives of files and use them as I please. I’m not sure why I would need any kind of app to access my files — except for the player.

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      I’ll take one pdf of this video please.