cobalt (@cobalt.tools)
bsky.app
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

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Its a shame that content creators don’t truly own the content on YouTube and can simply opt out of DRM on their videos.

    Also weird timing considering boycotting is a common topic right now.