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mightyfoolish@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠agoI think greyjay is the best YouTube app. I gave up on Newpipe the moment Firefox for Android reenabled extension support. I didnât like the fact that the app needed a fork just for Sponsor block support.
cmhe@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Well, with newpipes forks are possible in order to implement controversial features, with Grayjay they are unlikely because of its non-open-source license.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
At least its plugins, which are what needs to be regularly updated as platforms change, are open source. I imagine someone will clean-room reverse-engineer the core app and make an open source one that uses the plugins.
Also, Louis Rossmann said they only reserve the right to go after forks to prevent a situation like all the shady ad-ridden NewPipe ones flooding Google Play Store.
cmhe@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Reverse-Engineering and reimplementing something is a lot of work, especially if it is a moving target that is still actively developed. I donât expect anyone to do it.
That is some kind of hand wavy reasoning that might come from someone that could be sponsored by them. Louis should do better than taking any company by their word and promises. And spreading FUD about NewPipe (and by extension all of Open Source software) is also a straw man argument. An untrustworthy software repository is not a argument against the open source software application, but against the software repository and their maintainers.
If you are concerned with that, you should stop using Google Play store.