[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...

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.

  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    That would be their poison pill. Youtube’s advantage is in it’s ubiquity. Lose that, you lose countless users.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgOPEnglish
      82·
      3 days ago

      They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.

      • Mora@pawb.socialEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        The perfect business case: AI users watching AI ads before AI videos. No pesky users to deal with👍

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          But also, they’re not real users watching those ads and getting impressions. Unless people are using an agent system that could be convinced to buy the product, it doesn’t seem like it would be that useful.

          You may as well serve ads to standard viewbot at that point.