[gaucheries]

I think YouTube locked down their APIs after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

[herval]

in the end, that scandal was the open web's official death sentence :(

[m1sta_]

The issue wasn't the analytics either. The issue was the engagement algorithms and lack of accountability. Those problems still exist today.

[nextaccountic]

In which ways were the Cambridge Analytica thing and the openness of Youtube APIs (or other web APIs) related? I just don't see the connection

[gloryjulio]

The original open API from the Facebook was open for the benefit of the good actors to use their data. You can disagree with how it's used, but u can't disagree with the intention.

With the CA scandal, now all the big companies would lock down their app data and sell ads strictly through their limited API only, so the ads buyer would have much less control before.

It's basically saying: u cant behave with the open data. Then we will do business only

[pvankessel]

They actually held out for a couple of years after Facebook and didn't start forcing audits and cutting quotas until 2019/2020