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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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209 points alexcos | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 16:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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okdood64 ◴[29 Jun 25 16:22 UTC] No.44414264[source]▶
Does YouTube allow massive scraping like this in their ToS?
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nerdsniper ◴[30 Jun 25 04:16 UTC] No.44419304[source]▶
Per HiQ vs. LinkedIn, it doesn't matter what their ToS says if the scraper didn't have to agree to the ToS to scrape the data. YouTube will serve videos to someone who isn't logged in. So if you've never agreed to YouTube's ToS, you can scrape the videos. If YT forced everyone to log in before they could watch a video, then anyone who wants to scrape videos would have had to agree to the ToS at some point.
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olyjohn ◴[30 Jun 25 19:28 UTC] No.44426955[source]▶
It won't serve me videos if I'm not logged in. It tells me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot. How do these people get around this?
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1. nerdsniper ◴[30 Jun 25 20:05 UTC] No.44427270[source]▶
It does for me, in USA on AT&T Fiber using Safari in private browsing mode. Chrome in incognito as well. And phone on mobile YouTube (though I didn't test with uninstalling/reinstalling to reset IDFA and IDFV, so it's not really a valid test)