With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
I’ve known this for years, I’m constantly stunned everytime the ytdlp gui I wrote manages to pull down a file.
My saying has always been: “I trust each of these tech companies, up until they’re about to miss their second earnings estimate.” and any data you give them cannot be ungiven.