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Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image] by pkulak on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:13AM (#36929003)
My guess is that they want to stop bots from creating Google accounts once and for all. I don’t see them putting DRM on YouTube. That would break every app everywhere, and many of them can never be updated. Most could never be updated to this scheme.
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Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image] by peteforde on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:29AM (#36929100)
I remember when it was common to release third-party Twitter clients and bots were considered first-class citizens.

Large companies are far less uptight about breaking ecosystems that you might think. I say this as a former VB6 developer.

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