[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads · Issue #14404 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...

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.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      23 days ago

      IDK really.

      I don’t dislike it in a “this is terrible technology and no one should be doing it” kind of a way. Just in a “I feel a bit icky about this” kind of way.

      There must be privacy considerations right? Do I really want everyone to know what videos I’m watching?

      Also, do I really want my client to be providing n upstream connections grinding away at my battery?

      They’ve probably long since solved this I guess but in the early days firefox wasn’t supported ?

      I just… don’t feel like this is the solution to the cost of delivering content.