[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads · Issue #14404 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...

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.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      IDK really.

      I don’t dislike it in a “this is terrible technology and no one should be doing it” kind of a way. Just in a “I feel a bit icky about this” kind of way.

      There must be privacy considerations right? Do I really want everyone to know what videos I’m watching?

      Also, do I really want my client to be providing n upstream connections grinding away at my battery?

      They’ve probably long since solved this I guess but in the early days firefox wasn’t supported ?

      I just… don’t feel like this is the solution to the cost of delivering content.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I was incorrect, it uses HLS with P2P support:

        At the beginning of PeerTube, we only supported Web Video (previously known as “WebTorrent”) streaming. Due to several limitations of the Web Video system, we had to add HLS with P2P support.