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Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. (github.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/1872634

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.

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[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.

Not-so-fun fact, this is exactly what ATSC 3 is trying to do for OTA broadcast TV.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ATSC 3 ? Never heard of that, but I'm curious.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New broadcast standard which if implemented as intended, will use Widevine DRM to encrypt/decrypt streams, and require a web connection to view previously free OTA broadcasts, also that DRM will limit what you can do with it, as Rossmann puts it early on in his 'this is why I show these things in my vids' vid. https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/videos/watch/61332f1b-9a15-46b6-8a97-c4e378fbce72

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn. Hopefully some capture mechanism will exist so piracy sites can still reupload a backup.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

HDMI capture will always work.