Hello, people!
It has come to my attention that the Invidious project has received a cease and desist order from the Google crowd.
Invidious is a Free Open Source frontend for Youtube. It lets you have your own "Youtube" hosted at home, which in turn proxies your queries to the real Youtube. Its claim to fame is that it lets you watch any video in Youtube without ads.
That's right, Invidious removes advertisement from the equation so you can watch videos without crap popping up every now and then. You can try it out on popular public instances ( docs.invidious.io/instances/ )
The answer from the head devs has been to claim the cease and desist order lacks any base - because the order claims Invidious is breaching the ToS of the Youtube API, when Invidious does not use the API at all). He has also told INvidious supporters that they "already know what to do", which presumibly is to take the source code and distribute it everywhere just in case they crash their repositories. They have announced they have no intention to yield.
Too bad esc escaped before reading this news :-)
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