{"id":39703,"date":"2023-06-12T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39703"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:23:05","slug":"youtube-tries-to-shut-down-invidious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/youtube-tries-to-shut-down-invidious\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Tries to Shut Down Invidious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609\/\">Andy Maxwell<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2023\/06\/youtube-vs-invidious\/\">Mike Rockwell<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609\/\"><p>The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube&rsquo;s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTube experience minus advertising and user tracking, has been instructed to shut down within seven days. As things stand, cooperation isn&rsquo;t on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The main problems apparent in Google&rsquo;s cease and desist are straightforward; Invidious does not use YouTube&rsquo;s API, and as a result, the project&rsquo;s developers never agreed to any associated terms of service. As anyone who foolishly left their own instance open to the public will confirm, Invidious is effectively a proxy service, one with a penchant for bandwidth.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Maxwell (via Mike Rockwell): The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube&rsquo;s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTube experience minus advertising and user tracking, has been instructed to shut down within seven days. As things stand, cooperation isn&rsquo;t on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-12T18:22:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"b1bb84d4-90fd-430c-8d77-c4f241c7eb16","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-12T18:23:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsbuE1JD9QwyNd8TyQcfrFg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,209,355,96,50,555],"class_list":["post-39703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-legal","tag-privacy","tag-web","tag-webapi","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39704,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39703\/revisions\/39704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}