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

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Youtubers have complained about YT being a horrible landlord for so many years, and yet they can’t leave. They keep trying, but very few succeeded. It’s a shitty situation, but that’s where the audience and the money are.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      But now the more edgy videos are gone and the watch time that is attached to them. If you want to watch something that is too spicy for YT, you have to do so somewhere else. The fragmentation has already started.