I’m not too tech savvy so I appreciate responses in layman’s terms.
I have a rough concept of how NewPipe works, (correct me if I’m wrong though!) basically it’s a scrapper so it somehow reads the information in YouTube, anonymously, and filters the ads for you.
What I’m interested in knowing is, how does this behaviour look like from YouTube’s perspective. Can the platform “tell” that someone is accessing their content but not the ads that should go before and inbetween the videos? Do these views requested by NewPipe count towards the global amount of views a video has? Do content creators still get money from youtube ads with NewPipe views? Do they also get to see engagement data from views (such as which parts are skipped)? Etc etc.
It’s 100% and categorically not like torrenting. It’s a dumb argument either way. This is like saying that if you stand up to pee during a commercial break while watching cable you’re not paying for the content and thus stealing. No one is entitled to have their ads watched, that idea is just egregious. But anyways, did you remember to drink your Monster™ verification can? Otherwise you’re stealing this comment and you owe me $5 for reading it.
ADD: Your comment reminded me of this image.