• lud@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video? I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that’s being consumed on another website.

    A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn’t work if you “hotlinked” to them on another website. Images aren’t a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.

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      2 days ago

      They don’t host anything, they’re just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.

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        19 hours ago

        And no ads I presume.

        Understandable that they would block it.