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

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    15·
    1 month ago

    Maybe entertainment YouTubers should get together and do what Nebula did for educational content. I’d sign up for that, if it had channels I care about onboard. If YouTub decides to hide behind a poop-filled moat, I sure won’t be swimming to get there.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Alot of YouTubers tend to be pos(s),though some I used to follow became magats. Msms have largely taken over the front page.