I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.

This is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?

So you’re saying it’s fine to be a hypocrite as long as the corporate structure absolves you of direct liability? As the sibling also points out, YouTube was directly founded on illegal content.

Not exactly "scraping", but YT became popular largely through hosting pirated content, which is close.

If I remember right, Vanced is the official YouTube app that was decompiled and modified. Where newpipe is an open source standalone app that uses no Google code or apis.

C&D is almost certainly what happened. The wording of the tweet makes that clear, as they aren't attributing it to something like someone leaving the team.

Last I've heard they don't even use the YouTube APIs, just parses the website. So they're probably fine.