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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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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago

It is for all functional purposes the same thing.

If you don't own and control it and someone else does and you have no power or ability to stop them

You don't own it

To try to draw a line here is pointless in anything but a debate of technicalities and reality doesn't care about those.