Submitted 2 weeks ago by DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
cross-posted from: 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.
smartube, rvx, tubular works like before.
It says upcoming, this didn’t roll out yet
Or like, pay for the service you are so desperately addicted to.
Pay surveillance capitalists to track you, except with a verified real identity? I’ll pass, thanks.
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how much are you donating to lemmy?
I donated $200 right around the reddit jump. Barking up the wrong fucking tree 🤣.
Video Lite on iOS works fine.
my yt-dlp is on a daily auto-update loop, so I missed this. It’s working still. My thanks go to the amazing yt-dlp devs.
Yay for Deno!
uYouPlus is working just fine
I’d love to know the stats of how many people are using the official mobile apps vs third party clients. Surely you’re gonna break third party at some point that people just give up on YT.
Most people are probably just using the official app without a second thought, or even the official web client on Chrome or Edge, or vanilla FF without an ad blocker or any other protections, whatsoever.
This JS thing still isn’t a good sign of things to come should Google crack down even harder.
People using 3rd party clients or even adblockers are a tiny percentage of their total users. Which is why it was fairly surprising they went to such lengths for just that tiny bit of viewership. But for monopolists, having 99% is just not enough, they NEED that last percent somehow.
Currently Freetube hasn’t worked the last couple days. Wonder if this is why. Usually its fixed in a few days, so no worries
The world needs a p2p alternative, what are our current options? I wouldn’t mind alocating 500GB or more of my storage space just to get rid of these fuckers. These fascist gangsters are taking millions of people hostage who depend on YT for their livelihood…
Outside of PeerTube, you mean?
You got PeerTube for that, but anyone who kills their YT account and moves to PT full time will need to secure alt funding somehow either through Nebula, merch sales, getting a W-2 job, or a combination of the three, though, even if they host on a physical server they own and not on a VPS; buying the parts to build a decent PT server is going to be a pretty heavy up-front cost in itself.
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Ehhhh they didn’t break GrayJay.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Seems pretty broken to me. Nothing is loading now.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m able to use it at the moment, could be either my fallback settings or they’re doing a staged rollout of what breaks things.