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

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I don’t think Peertube needs to be come as bloated as Youtube is, because Youtube is…there’s people making good stuff on Youtube, among “host this video on Youtube and then embed it on our website” and “TTS robot voice reads Tumblr post over Minecraft jumping course Zoomer crack” to “most Hollywood movies, 2 minutes at a time with the bad words censored” to…whatever. The Peertube answer to a lot of that becomes “pssh, host your own video.”

      A lot of the stuff that’s on Youtube just…doesn’t need to be hauled out of the slush pile to build something thriving.