[gopiandcode]

I think the difference here is that Piped is using a custom backend server (piped-backend) which scrapes youtube html to obtain the video content/metadata (a-la invidious), while your app was using the youtube API. Google is allowed to shut your app down, but AFAIK can't police who can and can't consume their publicly available HTML.

[zibzab]

Oh, they definitely try to shut down these products by constantly changing the page structure or using javascript to obfuscate things:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951