Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.
That would be their poison pill. Youtube’s advantage is in it’s ubiquity. Lose that, you lose countless users.
They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.
The perfect business case: AI users watching AI ads before AI videos. No pesky users to deal with👍
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 6 hours ago
They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.
Mora@pawb.social 4 hours ago
The perfect business case: AI users watching AI ads before AI videos. No pesky users to deal with👍