2020-02-24, 14:12
(2020-02-24, 09:44)olympus Wrote:(2020-02-21, 11:48)giaur Wrote: Why can't we use Youtube without any credentials, anonymously similar as browsing Youtube site and watching videos without login?
Because someone would have to create an add-on that scrapes the webpage instead of using the API.
It would be broken very often though because of the changes of the website's layout.
Projects like NewPipe exist, but there are way too many people involved in it so they can handle them.
API means stablility, this add-on is a "1 person project" who works on it in his free time, it's not his job and is kind enough to share it with us.
The developer's options: having to work for free for countless hours to fix changes vs user to spend 5 minutes of his life to create credentials.
He makes the obvious choice, everybody would make the same in his position