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Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. (github.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://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.

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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[–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

Wait, sewer slide to describe the offing of one's self, really?! Google's that easily offended to where they'll censor vids talking about someone offing themselves if they just straight-up say the act instead of calling it something that sounds like the name of a Double Dare obstacle?!!

I guess Google doesn't know that using immature-sounding code words to talk about something like that is more likely to offend potential victims in the audience than just allowing the person talking about this stuff to be straight with the audience and just present the subject matter as-is.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    We haven’t been able to talk frankly on YouTube for well over a decade at this point. It’s just crept from specific niches to just general bullshit.

    If I talk about the time I got raped, I’d sooner choke Sundar Pichai than refer to it as the time I got “graped” or even “SA’d.” I recall Stephanie Sterling talking about it in their last video, about how we now live in a reality where you cannot make a video essay on the holocaust using the fucking word holocaust!

    The infantilisation of the English language to appease algorithms and corporate interests infuriates me. I can agree to watch my tone and moderate my language as to not hurt people around me, but fuck if I’m going to do so just to help fill come cuntbag’s bloated fucking coin purse.

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    As an aside; I don’t think sewer slide is common, and rather “unalive oneself” tends to be the more common phrase, but I heard it once.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Adam Buckley has been seemingly antagonizing YT by poking fun at this sorta thing too, and you still shouldn't have to describe someone offing themselves with a code phrase that legitimately sounds like something that Nick would've picked as the name for an obstacle in Double Dare, that's disrespectful as hell to any victims of someone who took that route in the audience.

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