[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.

  • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    Someone give it to me straight, what is the endgame of this cat and mouse game?

    A mandatory account with paid subscription.

      • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        It would be. Its been nice moving away from using a Google account.

        • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
          124·
          3 days ago

          What exactly has been “nice” 🤣. For real, please explain to me how your superior IdP works and what features have made it “nice” 🤣.

          • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            Why are you overusing emojis? Anyways, its been nice feeling less tied to Google services since I switched away from Gmail and moving to another email provider, and moving to foss options for services I used to use Google for.

            So having less dependency on Google, and not even having to sign into Google anymore to get benefit of subscription feed, playlists, and history has been cool through freetube on desktop and other third party apps like newpipe.

            You are on lemmy which is a very niche tech leaning social media that is more likely to degoogle or limit google usage. What is so bizzare about the concept of someone wanting to reduce their account dependency from a large corporate platform?