I dunno, Vimeo actively provides a JSON feed to people on Pro accounts. If they were adamantly against it, they wouldn't offer that. I don't know about you but there's posters here who don't code it at all, just copy & paste the Vimeo JSON feed & it works. I'd never heard of it until year or so ago.
Also, my feed/channel went down about 3 weeks ago, for nearly 2 weeks. Roku responded it was 'being looked into', and did eventually come back. However I had a pattern of submitting a new json feed url with each change, as opposed to just replacing the feeds content on my server. For years never had an issue, then last week, submitted my new feed with a few changes to add content, and suddenly it went down again. Ughh, been another week already. The fact they previously fixed it tells me it was a glitch they intended to address.
A few years ago, someone posted about being kicked off Vimeo, for exceeding bandwidth limitations (if you search the forums you'll find it). He admitted he had multiple channels on 1 account and never said how high, but that he conceded it was up there and that Vimeo had a case. They were fine to work with but ultimately he found a service cheaper than what Vimeo was willing to do it for, but they allowed him to keep his service up while he switched & even an overlap in case he switched back. The fact they weren't abrupt with him & kicked him off immediately as a violation of TOS is somewhat telling. I think they claimed it was a bending of the rules though, but again, they're now providing json feed specifically for Roku DP & I think I saw Roku's logo on their site somewhere when I searched for it.
Over time, yeah, maybe its time to look elsewhere. Really tho technical glitches could happen to any of them. I wonder if maybe with Covid & livestreaming Vimeo moved alot of VOD videos to other/older servers to make livestreaming more available, but the new setup doesn't allow for OTT/off-platform streaming. Doesn't explain how mine came back & went away tho, but something related like that.
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