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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

  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The issue is that hosting costs for videos are insane. There’s nowhere else to turn except for Youtube (unfortunately PeerTube is so far off being a reasonable alternative). I would love to see some more competition, but I don’t see it happening in the close future. The sad state of things is that 90% of the population won’t care if their favorite MrBeast video has DRM.

    • Francisco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The sad state of things is that 90% of the population won’t care if their favorite MrBeast video has DRM.

      Agreed!!

      (unfortunately PeerTube is so far off being a reasonable alternative)

      Why? Because of the hosting cost? Where is Youtube getting this for cheap?

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Because of the hosting cost? Where is Youtube getting this for cheap?

        More than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute (reference). The cost of operating this system is astronomical. Building a competing platform is entirely out of reach unless you have nation-state levels of wealth.

        YouTube’s costs are effectively subsidized by Alphabet (Google). All of the restrictions being implemented are about trying to make YouTube profitable, especially by protecting the ad revenue stream.