FS#60905 - [minitube] API Key Requested

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by freq (freq-) - Saturday, 24 November 2018, 20:32 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Saturday, 05 January 2019, 12:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

This application is requesting API key upon searching for youtube videos. The options are to input a key OR to download the developer's version (assuming this comes with the API key, but untested).

Should an application that denies all user requests without signing in, be welcome into the sanitized repositories? This appears to be a google advertisement to me. Please remove.
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Saturday, 05 January 2019, 12:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Saturday, 24 November 2018, 22:43 GMT
See https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube/blob/master/README.md#google-api-key
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Tuesday, 01 January 2019, 13:04 GMT
This is up to the packager to decide whether we should keep it or not. Steam isn't useful without signing in either.
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Saturday, 05 January 2019, 12:17 GMT
@freq-: To have the application in the repos is perfectly fine. Whether it is a nice move by Google to require an API key for everything is yet another question.
You don't have to install the application, if you don't want to use it. There's no advertisement in that application warranting your statement (yet, Google's *services are not free*, as you have advertisements there and to them you yourself are usually *the goods*).

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