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.
Well, I sure hope this doesn’t come to be. I don’t wanna use their official website, the 3rd party tools are great! But YouTube has become an essential part of my everyday life…
And yes, I have looked into alternatives. They lack what YouTube got, which is the creators I already like (pretty much all of them exclusive to YouTube). Best I could get is copycats. You might be able to find something similar, but not the same (unless you like tech, I guess. If all you consume is tech, you won’t lack options (especially if you don’t care for specific creators))
it’s just annoying having to constantly update my greasemonkey scripts to try to find the ONE that actually works.
like the ad skipping script I had just stopped working the other day. While it WAS skipping ads google decided that “oh you’re skipping ads? cool, we’ll just keep throwing them at you endlessly”
So they’ve FINALLY figured out the add skipping thing and now if you’re speeding through/skipping ads they’ll just serve them endlessly to you.