Watched Louis Rossman today, and he's part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more.

adblock already integrated, works amazingly with a quick test on my end - it's an app in the Lemmy spirit

(it's got a paid model similar to winrar, you don't have to pay - but they do want you to - opensource and all)

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      1 year ago

      That’s not the problem. The question is, stopping actors that put ads and paywalls behind modified source, which technically isn’t malicious, it’s just being a jerk and this licensing makes it much easier to take down. Ofc, if he actually wanted it to be open source, he’d just force all derivatives to be non commercial.

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, because someone who wants to do that is going to see that and think oh no, he doesn't want us to, guess we shouldn't

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          1 year ago

          That’s not the point. The point is takedown actions being a lot easier especially if one of the idiots tries to argue against

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          1 year ago

          The point is, that anyone who tries to make money by ad-bombing the app and adding it to the playstore will be punished. If you post your virus-infected fork in the far-behind edge of internet-nowhere Louis would not care about that. Otherwise: why do you not ask him yourself if you want to post your own fork and under which conditions that should be possible. If you ride principles, then develop your own app that is much much better and FOSS than grayjay. Nobody stops you.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, at least in this case he can take down fake copies from the most popular app stores. That mitigates the reach of malicious clones a lot.