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Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels by dcsan on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:08PM (#44945349)
Were you using their embedded player or some other method to play the raw streams?

The embed links back to YT which is a major part of why they provide it for off-platform playback.

But if they somehow singled you out for overuse of the embed that seems rather arbitrary

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Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels by madamelic on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:49PM (#44946640)
Yep! I was using their embedded player. I thought I was doing everything right but didn't read the ToS because in my mind, ToS is just blocking silly things like "please don't use our product to build nuclear weapons", not "please don't use our product to play videos on another site".

Struck me as very anti-user and BigCorpo.

It was the project that solidified never building on someone else's 'lawn' again.

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Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels by bowsamic on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:08PM (#44947186)
> because in my mind, ToS is just blocking silly things like "please don't use our product to build nuclear weapons", not "please don't use our product to play videos on another site".

Why did you think that??

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