So, starting now, Google started mandating full JS for YT, effectively breaking all third-party clients and locking the site to their official client.
This reeks of DRM.
UPDATE: Installing Deno and installing yt-dlp through PyPi fixes yt-dlp but the very idea that Google is mandating JS to lock down YT in an attempt at pseudo-DRM is still crappy.
UPDATE #2: inv.nadeko.net is working again for now.
Needing a full JS engine to run on your user account for Youtube? What are the privacy and security implications here?
It’s probably more about control than security. Mandate JS, force people to watch their shit on their proprietary front-end.
I bet ad blockers and even manually blocking related cookies in FF browsers are probably going to break the site and force Chromium browser use too.
Literally all of this is false.