[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.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    It’s an ugly world these greedy fucks have made for us.

    We EAGERLY helped them. We walked into the cage and clasped the manacles all by ourselves.

    • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Who’s “we” though?

      I see the largest two camps here as (1) casuals that don’t have the know how to protest via alternatives and (2) the tech literate that are willing but ultimately limited by the larger forces at work.

      I think it’s fair to blame the people with the power that exploited the first group and left the second without choice.