cobalt (@cobalt.tools)
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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

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    8 days ago

    Probably explains my looping 403 errors on SmartTube, but it eventually loads after several attempts.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        SmartTube?

        I just let it roll through the 403 “Applying the fix”.error while I did something else. Took maybe 5–10 mins, but started playing and no issue since.