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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] 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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