I'd count google mostly as an example of deprecating or limiting useful interfaces. Yes, you can feed them stuff in "open" formats, but getting stuff out is harder. First example that comes to mind is youtube APIs, which offered easier access to stuff. Now try to get a feed of someones videos or similar...
But it is possible that it's confirmation bias + uncommon sample on my part.
Yeah... for Google / YouTube, I blame OAuth for most of the difficulty in accessing data (while retaining one's sanity) these days. Once you've waded through the quagmire of access tokens, auth libraries (in different languages), account permissions, etc... making the actual API calls isn't so hard.
Re:Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
by icebraining on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:34AM
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Now try to get a feed of someones videos or similar...
What do you mean? Channels have an element linking to an RSS feed. In fact, just pasting a channel URL to an RSS reader should work.
Example of a channel feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCr4soU_...
However, why such pessimism? I hardly think that standard formats and open APIs are dead. Sure, there are some nasty blights upon cyberspace in this regard (ahem, Facebook, Apple), but other players are still keeping the dream alive to some extent (e.g. Google, Yahoo).