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Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 168 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Not to be a downer but... how did people not anticipate this happening? Google is likely going to do everything they can to shut down non-official clients like Piped, since they're sidestepping all of YouTube's revenue streams. Hopefully they don't take the nuclear option and somehow lock down the API and make it much harder to download videos via tools like yt-dlp.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 55 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure most people anticipated it at some point. I just seems to be starting now.

[–] BrioxorMorbide@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

Well, if they implement their web integrity DRM thingy in Chrome and Youtube then that will prevent anything that's not a real approved browser from accessing the website, and with that the video streams. Not only Piped/Newpipe, but anything automated trying to access any website will be automatically locked out unless the website approves of it. New search engine bot? Archiving crawlers? Any type of third party program that accesses some website's content without approval? Dead.

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah we're basically hurting their revenue by using Piped and other ways to bypass Google's ads. They wouldn't be profitable if everyone stopped watching those ads

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Noooooooooo! The poor google 😢

their $412,378/s has been reduced to $412,367/s! 😭 😭

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They’re making plenty of profit selling all of our data  and getting ad revenue from the 95%+ of other users who aren’t blocking them.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd wager that it's closer to 99.999%.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah since i don't have any figures I just went sort of conservative with the estimate

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly, you either get my data or my money. That's how I feel about every service nowadays, I don't think its unethical to subvert payment requirements when they have been selling my privacy for years.