Yes. And the big G doesn't care. If they have to lie and say it's abusive and a violation of the ToS, they'll say it is. They're a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.
drwho
joined 1 year ago
Things escalated, folks. They got a C&D:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/
Start backing up the source repos now.
Surprising no one who's ever had to work with it for longer than sixty seconds.
NSA? Yes. CIA? Probably not. They don't have that kind of imagination. c.f., the internal parody of The Hunt for Red October they declassified about a decade ago.
I really doubt it. He's more the kind of guy to organize a DDoS on some of the bigger sites, anyway.