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

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m not making it out to be trivial, but I am realistic about the matter.

    You can have in-stream ads to make things ‘unblockable’, but only so long as there’s no other side effects. Any side effects can be detected, that’s really just the reality of the matter.