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.

  • mrdown@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    12 hours ago

    How about peertube fixing the discovery issues first? The platform if full of low quality content

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 hours ago

      At least it’s not AI slop unlike what Google is pushing really hard on YT lately.

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        At lease there is ton of quality videos and channel that you can watch in you tube unlike peer tube that 99.9% of videos are terrible quality videos. The AI slop i can simply ignore. I would like to love peertube but it is trash unlike pixeled which is not perfect and have many half backed features but I can find many great creators and great photos. Pixelfed reduced by usage of instagram by 95%