cobalt (@cobalt.tools)
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youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

  • Simyon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I pay for Premium and if they actually do this I’ll stop my subscription. Web DRM is stupid and I hate that other Streaming Services already have it. Apart from being another resource sink in browsers, it’ll stop third party clients which I use and it also turns off Nvidia Shadowplay which is annoying as it doesn’t automatically turn back on once the DRM content is no longer loaded.