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.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thank you! Ffs, I was just sitting here thinking, I am not paying ticketmaster a damn dime, even if I have to miss my childhood heroes before they die. People whore themselves out and it fucks all of society constantly. Can't watch videos because of content monopoly, can't see a concert without getting fucked on exorbitant fees, can't go to the hospital because holy fuck, can't go to school without crippling debt, can't watch TV without supporting terrorists, etc. Like bloody hell the corpos have monopolized and ruined everything. They can go to hell. I'll play my shitty guitar, sing to myself, do home surgery, and go outside or stare at a wall. Fuck this shit!

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

I whore myself out and pay for the family plan, but I have a good reason.

My dad watches YT almost exclusively so I told him if he shared his password with me I can add him to my plan so he doesn’t see any ads. He fell for it. Now I login into his account ever so often and mark “not interested” on any red pill bullshit I see. It seems to be working.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You still have alternative platforms to Big Tech though, PeerTube and Odysee like have been mentioned umpteen times in this thread and on Lemmy at large, and not to mention Lemmy itself, and Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Bsky among others.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bsky is just another VC financed grift though.

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're probably right, but I'm not sure what the grift IS. Presumably they'll start rolling out ads at some point?

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’re still running on VC money so it’ll be a while. My guess: ads, selling user data, AI training on user behaviours, limiting what content is suitable (getting rid of NSFW), promoting corporate brands (so algorithmic advertising) and adding crypto in one way or another. And all the other tricks that older platforms have been doing.

And probably burying the thought of distributed protocol, hoping people will stop talking about it.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 points 19 hours ago

ATProto's dual-licensed under MIT and Apache so it's not like it'll be easy to get rid of.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure but they don't have the content and don't have staying power. If peertube became popular who is going to pay for the bandwidth.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its users, in part because it uses web torrent which means the traffic of videos is shared peer-to-peer, thus the host doesn't have to pay for a lot of bandwidth.

Also, just like mastodon servers are paid by its users for service I'm sure admins that build up a good reputation with their users or make them aware that they need more to pay for it will pay, or not and they'll just disappear which is really how the web should work, not all these tech oligarchs who have lots of money from exploiting their users and workers.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I thought PeerTube ditched WebTorrent and switched full-time to WebRTC a while back.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert on these things but I just don't like the idea of web torrent.

I do however, whole heartedly agree that video producers should pay for their own bandwidth, and be supported by users.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert on these things but I just don't like the idea of web torrent.

How come?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

IDK really.

I don't dislike it in a "this is terrible technology and no one should be doing it" kind of a way. Just in a "I feel a bit icky about this" kind of way.

There must be privacy considerations right? Do I really want everyone to know what videos I'm watching?

Also, do I really want my client to be providing n upstream connections grinding away at my battery?

They've probably long since solved this I guess but in the early days firefox wasn't supported ?

I just... don't feel like this is the solution to the cost of delivering content.