YouTube video platform has many third-party plug-ins, these plug-ins can provide, for example, video caching, ad blocking, blocking trackers, multiplier playback and other features, and Google is now ready to start to knife these third-party plug-ins.
The YouTube legal team has reportedly sent an email to Invidious, a YouTube tracker blocker plugin that is used to prevent Google trackers from collecting user information and blocking ads. Google believes that Invidious violates the YouTube API’s terms of service and developer policies, and has asked the Invidious development team to stop the service within 7 days.
▲ Statement by project manager TheFrenchGhosty, source GitHub
But Invidious refused to comply with the request, and project manager TheFrenchGhosty replied on GitHub that Invidious does not use YouTube’s APIs to access video APIs, so they are not required to agree to any of YouTube’s terms of service or policies, nor do they have any need to comply with YouTube’s legal team’s They are not required to agree to any of YouTube’s terms of service or policies, nor are they required to comply with any of YouTube’s legal team’s requirements.
▲ Statement by project manager TheFrenchGhosty, source GitHub
▲ Statement from Project Manager TheFrenchGhosty, image source TheFrenchGhosty’s blog
TheFrenchGhosty has also expressed concern that the YouTube team will pressure GitHub to remove the repository, so the future of Invidious remains unclear.
▲ Project manager TheFrenchGhosty’s statement, source TheFrenchGhosty’s blog
