YouTube sent a letter asking the third-party open source tracker interceptor software Invidious to stop service, which refused to do so.

CTOnews.com June 22, YouTube video platform has a number of third-party plug-ins, these plug-ins can provide such as video caching, ad blocking, blocking tracker, double-speed playback and other functions, and Google is now ready to take action on these third-party plug-ins.

It is reported that the YouTube legal team has sent an email to Invidious, a YouTube tracker blocking plug-in, which is mainly used to prevent Google tracker from collecting user information and blocking ads. Google believes that Invidious violates YouTube API's terms of service and developer policy, so it asked the Invidious development team to stop the service within seven days.

According to a statement from ▲ project manager TheFrenchGhosty, Tu Yuan GitHub but Invidious refused to implement this request. TheFrenchGhosty, the project manager, recently replied on GitHub that Invidious did not use YouTube's API to obtain video API, so they did not need to agree to any terms of service or policies of YouTube, nor did they comply with the requirements put forward by the YouTube legal team.

Statement from TheFrenchGhosty, Project Manager of ▲, Source GitHub

In a statement from ▲ project manager TheFrenchGhosty, Tuyuan TheFrenchGhosty's blog CTOnews.com also noted that despite the tough attitude, TheFrenchGhosty also expressed concern that they were not sure whether the YouTube team would put pressure on GitHub to delete the warehouse, so the future of Invidious is still uncertain.

▲ Project Manager TheFrenchGhosty's statement, Picture Source TheFrenchGhosty's blog