cobalt (@cobalt.tools)
bsky.app
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

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    More than you’d think, but if folks are like myself than not as many as g-daddy would need to justify the switch to a more legitimate model.

    Personally, when a company unilaterally decides it can do whatever the 🦆 it wants with my data, I believe that road goes both ways, so I’ll do whatever the 🦆 I want with theirs. Including downloading it without paying.