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youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    DRM in the video feed would allow encrypted ads in the videos, and effectively break normal ad blockers.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Only if there was no client-side decoration/measurement code/links etc to denote that an ad is playing, which there will always be.

      It’s basically no different from having in-stream ads today.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        It’s very different. It’s not as trivial as you paint it. They can make it as hard as they want to detect.

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I’m not making it out to be trivial, but I am realistic about the matter.

          You can have in-stream ads to make things ‘unblockable’, but only so long as there’s no other side effects. Any side effects can be detected, that’s really just the reality of the matter.