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

  • Lemmist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    25 days ago

    It isn’t an issue. I mean it is a completely artificial issue that was created by YouTube itself. What do I mean? That only ~0.01% of those videos should really be videos. All other things could easily be in a text form. Storing text is cheap. Searching text is convenient. Reading text is easier.