Open renatog-cit opened 3 years ago
It has come up in the past. I'm in the process (slowly) of adding an option to disable the custom controls which solves 4th & 6th. It's in the dev
branch but I've not fully tested it yet. 10th isn't something Plyr supports anyway.
Those terms only apply if you are using the API of YouTube Services. Meaning building an app or building something that requires their API code or API key. And in that case you could just disable Plyr in those applications once the disable option is available. And there are ways around that but you'd have to deep dive search to find those ways. And the end of the day it's really that YouTube just wants their name on your own stuff if you are using their services to host your video. They want credit basically. And they know they can't stop you unless you are using their API which they have to approve, it's a bully-tactic in my opinion but if you can avoid their API, you're good...
The official docs literally explain how to create your own player; that's the whole purpose of the IFrame API, and that's why there is an option to hide the controls : https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Examples . Not against the TOS. I suppose removing YouTube branding completely may be against TOS.
The official docs literally explain how to create your own player; that's the whole purpose of the IFrame API, and that's why there is an option to hide the controls : https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Examples . Not against the TOS. I suppose removing YouTube branding completely may be against TOS.
I guess it might be a grey area but their lawyers also did send me a cease and desist 😄
@sampotts Okay, that's very discouraging. I was actually in the midst of creating my own dedicated YouTube "interactive player", outside Plyr.io. It's actually very slick. Quick question: How long ago was the Cease & Desist? Did you comply? Plyr still has custom YouTube controls, so I guess you didn't comply? Or, was adding a "customControls" good enough for them?
Hello everyone how are you?
First of all congrats on the project! This library is very useful!
One question, we were reading this Google document about some prohibitions: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies#i.-additional-prohibitions
And in the 4th item there is:
6th item:
And 10th
So just to confirm as a double-check in the "Legal" side we can't use Plyr to modify Youtube player that's correct?
I'm asking because I found nothing on GitHub about this item.
Thank you so much in advance.