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

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    263·
    8 days ago

    Nah, maybe some people will switch ad blockers off, but for most, the msin takeaway will be to look for a competing service.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Other entertainment. If Youtube makes my head hurt, I’ll go touch grass, watch a movie, read some news, play boardgames, etc.

        And if one can’t get out of their phone, then there is Tiktok I guess.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
        156·
        7 days ago

        And you vastly underestimate the value Youtube would lose if the tech-savvy segment of their audience went elsewhere.

        Those left behind are a different market. Youtube creators would have to dumb themselves down even further, driving even more worthwhile content off the service. Soon Youtube would be the Facebook of video sites, geared towards a shrinking population of people too old and stubborn to move on.

        I say YT should absolutely shoot themselves in the foot like this.