fedislug

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Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] 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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Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] 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

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