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

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    14 days ago

    They went and paid for Spotify.

    Like most heavy users of YTP. YouTube will be just fine. Y’all just freeloaders. Pay you cheap bastards.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Already paid in personal data before I was smart enough to try and close the faucet, I don’t see why I should pay more

    • Siratonin@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      I’d happily pay if youtube stopped falsley demonitizing all the creators I watch. I refuse to give money to copyright trolls. If I pay youtube then youtube just hands a portion of that money to copyright trolls, no questions asked.