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Cake day: January 8th, 2024

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  • They don’t connect to an API because the YouTube API requires the developers to sign YouTube Terms of Service, which they refuse to do for obvious reasons. This is why those programs break because they scrape the web page instead of using the API. So when the web page changes, the apps have to change in order to continue working. I think the reason it’s called soft piracy above is because you are using the service without watching their advertising and they don’t like that very much. piracy is wider scope than just torrents, but that’s what most people think of when they hear the word piracy.




  • Okay, according to the article, this functionality will only activate after you have signed into a Google account for the first time on the device. So, at least for those of us who use custom software such as lineage OS, that won’t matter since we don’t put a Google account on the device to begin with in a lot of cases. A lot of us boot the phone for the first time, skip the entire setup wizard as fast as possible without signing in or any of that stuff, and then immediately enable OEM unlocking and flash the lineage or whatever software.