furikuri@programming.devtoCasual Conversation @lemm.ee•Does anyone else notice the infuriating trend of people renaming youtube videos and swapping thumbnails?English
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3 months agoIf I had to guess I’d say that their other project, Sponserblock, got a little bit more popular than they were expecting and this is just to help alleviate server costs. Most of the API endpoints don’t require any auth at all (the single one that does accepts a random UUID), so any checks must be locally done (maybe system time?). The extension and server back-end are licensed under GPLv3 and AGPL respectively and are also entirely self-hostable, so the code is out there to verify if you wish
I think this is the more worrying part if true. The backend is licensed under the AGPL, so this would technically be a
violationof their termsEdit: For anyone else reading I looked into it a bit more and looks like the issue came to a head around 3 years ago, with this comment being made after a year of missing source code. The public repo has been pretty active since then, so the issue seems to be resolved