Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

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T156@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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