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

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    25 天前

    Nah, maybe some people will switch ad blockers off, but for most, the msin takeaway will be to look for a competing service.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        23 天前

        Other entertainment. If Youtube makes my head hurt, I’ll go touch grass, watch a movie, read some news, play boardgames, etc.

        And if one can’t get out of their phone, then there is Tiktok I guess.