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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[–] fedislug@lemmy.ml 66 points 3 days ago (4 children)

God damn it Google. Moves like this are such an insult to the free and open net that made YouTube popular in the first place

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I applaud your belief that Google isn't 100% against a free and open internet these days. They know exactly what they are doing.

[–] fedislug@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Oh I know they are! Trying to de-google as much as possible. I was alluding to before their acquisition of the site which, even at the time, we all knew was not going to end well.

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