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Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by shiroiuma on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:46AM (#39225512)
You don't need third-party APIs to make a YouTube viewer. There's a bunch of 3rd-party YouTube viewers like SmartTube, ReVanced, etc. that bypass ads and don't use the official API, plus of course the yt-dlp downloader.

I'd say the lesson here is NOT to rely on official APIs.

However, upon reading this blog post, it does seem he's using the official API so I guess he thinks he'll be fine as long as he doesn't block ads. Time will tell.

Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by yard2010 on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:21AM (#39226776)
I wanted my bot to "see" a youtube video and sum it up - so me being the naïve 1998 kid me, spent like 2 hours setting up the API access to get the transcript of a video only to realize I can use this API only on videos I uploaded which is a complete bullshit because as soon as that happened I ditched it and wrote a script using puppeteer scraping the the transcript of ANY video, which ironically took less time than setting up the API.

So yeah I learned my lesson I should not resort to piracy, but start with it

Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by ryandrake on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:37AM (#39225767)
> However, upon reading this blog post, it does seem he's using the official API so I guess he thinks he'll be fine as long as he doesn't block ads.

The idea of strapping something to my face that's going to project ads into my eyeballs that I cannot look away from--well, let's say it's pretty clear technology took a wrong term some time ago.

Apple should do the right thing and enforce a strong "no ads" policy for this product. Keep it premium for people who shell out thousands of dollars for it.

Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by Kwpolska on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:05AM (#39225928)
You can get rid of the ads on YouTube by paying 0.4% of the Vision Pro base model price per month.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by shiroiuma on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:21AM (#39226032)
That does nothing for all the "sponsor segments" embedded in the videos.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by hunter2_ on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:55AM (#39226233)
Try sponsorblock, or stn which includes it.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by shiroiuma on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:54AM (#39226602)
AFAIK, sponsorblock isn't going to work with a 3rd-party YouTube viewer app like this.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by hunter2_ on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:33AM (#39230652)
Yeah, I guess STN (a viewer app in which sponsorblock works) is of the variety that TFA says makes Google "grumpy."
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by Gigachad on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:48AM (#39225831)
You can look away from it. The OS doesn’t give apps access to the eye tracking info.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by qt31415926 on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:03AM (#39225605)
A lot of the internet would break if YouTube removed/tweaked their embedded video player so I doubt he has to worry.
Re:Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro by yard2010 on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:23AM (#39226787)
Keep in mind that this didn't prevent Facebook and Twitter doing the same, Google is just behind with these patterns, just like with everything else