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by BlindEyeHalo 873 days ago
In general I would agree but charging $10 for something that can be shut down tomorrow just because google doesn't like it seems a bit much.
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He admits it uses the official embed API, doesn't block or skip ads and generally plays nice with their systems. He's not trying to circumvent anything, he's just filling a gap left by Google themselves.

It would be quite the precedent for Google to shut someone down who is technically playing by all their rules.

(Yes I'm sure the ToS allows them to do this if they want to - but it would be a bad look).

Lots of apps block YouTube ads by default. Including Brave