Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
It's viewable source, the license does not allow modification and distribution of the modifications. The license also reserves the right to be revoked at any time.
It's source available, but it is not what most people would consider open source in the common usage.
Exactly. Beware of the inevitable enshittification down the line. Once they have the market share, they have no reason not to close their source
He says in the video on yt that you can fork it and modify it however you want for personal use no problem. You just can't make money distributing it I think.
So basically no chance of it coming to iOS. Given that even open source apps have options to purchase donations in the iOS app, cause developers can’t eat gratitude
He also says somewhere in the comments that apple simply wouldn't allow this app on the app store. But there's also the option of sideloading, I think that's free no?
Important to note that this is a custom temporary license. Doesn't mean it's not good, but still something to keep in mind.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dD09d (click "Archived page not showing up? Click here." on the left side)
edit: removed archive.org link because it wasn't loading properly
edit 2: corrected some mistakes about the source
They said they've been working on it for at least a year so not having a proper license can only mean the license will get more restrictive.
App looks legitimately amazing. Seems a bit buggy in alpha but I'm sure it'll be ironed out. I just hope they look into supporting Piped instead of directly connecting to YouTube, as well as SponsorBlock. Once they get those 2 things and iron out some of the bugs, I'll primarily use it for sure. Its a great concept.
Wouldn't interacting through Piped just introduce an additional communication layer, which makes interacting with YT slower? I see your argument with Piped, but what would be the pros of using Piped which outweighs the additional communication costs?
Pro would just be not directly connecting through Google/YouTube servers, and instead using a proxy. Its a nice privacy benefit. I agree it could make things slower, so I don't think it should completely replace direct connection with YouTube, but I just think the option would be nice to have.
I wish somewhere on their site or anywhere in that description they'd say "Android App".
I was a little disappointed as an iOS user browsing their site trying to find the iOS App Store link 😬.
Edit: I appreciate the advice to switch to Android but I really wasn't asking. 😅
Apple actively sabotages projects like this one. You're using the wrong phone.
Silly apple user you don't get to have good apps
Downloaded it and tried it. It's awesome. It blows invidious and newpipe out of the water. Plus it includes my nebula subscriptions in with my YouTube subscriptions.
Louis Rossmann is based AF
A shame it is not available for iOS (at least I can see).
Your mistake chosing an iPhone.
If there was a Linux approach to smartphones, I’d be interested. Instead, it’s a choice between two large corporations. And one of them receives the majority of its income from advertising. So that’s why I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of the two evils.
The lesser of two evils is Android as it's like they put closed-source software on top of open source software (see AOSP) whereas on iPhone it's all closed.
Apple actively sabotages these kinds of projects. You're on the wrong device.
Really enjoying it so far
Not FOSS. So I don't really trust it
Software simply being FOSS does not equal trust. It never has, and never should.
A free program certainly doesn't make it trustworthy.
edit: as pointed out, free stands for liberty to do as you please, not the financial definition. With that in mind, I definitely wouldn't call Grayjoy FOSS due to the license. I like my made up classification, but maybe this would work better; ROSS, "restricted open source software."
An open source program doesn't make it trustworthy. Unless you vet the program yourself you can never be 100% trusting.
For most of us, we're trusting the smaller community of people who actually go through the code for us. We don't trust individual pieces of FOSS, we trust the FOSS community and recognize that a developer is less likely to place malicious software in the code. However, it's also much easier for a malicious 3rd party to fork the program and infect the code.
I'm confident that anything FUTO puts out is going to be heavily looked over by all the Louis haters and fanboys - if they're up to something shady, we'll hear about it.
This particular software is what I'd call Open Source Donation Ware (OSDW)
"please pay us but we aren't checking if you do. Here's the code, if you want you could copy it and remove the payment all together. However, we retain the legal right to destroy any fork that adds spy/malware."
As a model, I can respect it. It's a good medium between releasing the program to the wild and being closed source. It's also a good model for making money for their work, pretty much like winrar's approach (rip now that windows is finally getting native .rar support). Yes, some programs are more subtle with a little coffee cup button, but as long as it doesn't constantly nag you, I'm okay with a more prominent 'donation' button.
What exactly do you mean by "trust", here? Yes, it's not fully FOSS, and I do understand why you wouldn't like or use it because of that, but you can still verify the code, compile it yourself and build and run it with your own modifications, so how would being fully FOSS make you trust it more?
Not sure what part of a free YT+ frontend that doesn't require permissions or an account you don't trust, but the reason is they don't want people to fork it freely and spread a version with malware, like happened to NewPipe.
where did you find that gitlab link? it isn't linked from the project website; looking at the website i would assume it isn't free software.
edit: oh, i see it isn't actually free software after all, it is under source 'source visible' proprietary license. 🥱
I literally just watched the video from Louis Rossman, and came straight here. Pleased to see everyone already talking about it!
The app looks cool, but why did you post this in c/privacy? Does this have some extra privacy related features?
It excludes trackers from apps like YT, Twitch etc, so there is an argument to be made
Exactly this. Bonus points: this time privacy is more convenient than the native apps.
I think this looks awesome. Curious if it will be added to F-Droid?
It's not open source. It's only source available.