Piped cracks CAPTCHA blocks meant to ensure YouTube maintains access to their hosted videos. That CAPTCHA includes a EULA that by engaging with the captcha to continue using youtube you agree not to circumvent google ads. Piped intentionally (and correctly, from an ethics perspective) circumvents this
You aren’t agreeing the the EULA
But the person operating the piped server is
How so?
It is just a web crawler. It isn’t do much more than your standard search engine
Piped cracks CAPTCHA blocks meant to ensure YouTube maintains access to their hosted videos. That CAPTCHA includes a EULA that by engaging with the captcha to continue using youtube you agree not to circumvent google ads. Piped intentionally (and correctly, from an ethics perspective) circumvents this