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Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by izacus on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:17PM (#20310614)
That would be fine if they'd be clean reimplementations of an API using their own backends. But advertising services which abuse SaaS infrastructure of a company is just not ok, especially in an article that's all about not using anything from Google.

I'd feel similarly about having someone advertise a way to crack Slack enterprise features instead of using something like Matternmost.

Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by bubblethink on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:37AM (#20310837)
Newpipe is literally doing what the browser does, which is fair. The rest of the argument boils down to ad blocking. If you are a stickler, you could use youtube in a browser and get the ads.
Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:39AM (#20311488)
> But advertising services which abuse SaaS infrastructure of a company is just not ok

A nitpick, but somewhat important: they're not services, they're products. Pieces of software. Alternative user agents. Very opinionated web browsers, if you like.

Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by bennofs on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:33AM (#20311472)
But using FCM is enforced by apps. If they would roll their own, no app would work.
Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by izacus on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:20AM (#20311953)
Not on LineageOS or any other ROM you have MicroG installed on.