Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

Post by spwa4 » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

ticulatedspline wrote: post #85

vachina wrote: post #13

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They’d need dedicated hardware to enforce any kind of effective DRM. Encrypted bitstream generated on the fly watchable only on L2 attested device.

maybe to stop the .01%. switching to app only, sign in only would get them pretty much all the way there. They own the os, with sign-in, integrity checks, and the inability to install anything on it Google doesn't want you to install they could make it pretty much impossible to view the videos on a device capable of capturing them for the vast majority of people. Combine that with a generation raised in sandboxes and…

Post by titzer » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

Arainach wrote: post #30

bilekas wrote: post #27

More and more recently with youtube, they seem to be more and more confrontational with their users, from outright blocking adblockers, which has no bearing on youtube's service, to automatically scraping creators content for AI training and now anything API related. They're very much aware that there is no real competition and so they're taking full advantage of it. At the expense of the 'users experience' but these…

>outright blocking adblockers, which has no bearing on youtube's service The scale of data storage, transcoding compute, and bandwidth to run YouTube is staggering. I'm open to the idea that adblocking doesn't have much effect on a server just providing HTML and a few images, but YouTube's operating costs are (presumably, I haven't looked into it) staggering and absolutely incompatible with adblocking.

Post by latexr » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

Fokamul wrote: post #57

xeonmc wrote: post #3

In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.

I hope they will do that, yes really. Because this will mean major shift to open-source and community solution, where creators will be paid directly by their viewers. I have NO problem, what so ever, to pay content creators directly. But I have HUGE problem to pay big corpos. It's ridiculous that we pay for Netflix same price as US people and for you it's cheaper than coffee and for us, if you compare median-salary,…

Post by FergusArgyll » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #42

bdz wrote: post #36

I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site. I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.

Same here and my motivation was that some of my liked videos were randomly removed and it's pretty cool music I wanted to keep forever. I made another script that adds the video thumbnail as album art and somehow tries to put the proper ID3 tags, it works like 90% of the time which is good enough for me. Then I made another script that syncs it to my phone when I connect it. So now I have unlimited music in my phone…

  artist = llm_call("return the name of the artist based on this title", title)

Post by icpmoles » Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 2:20 PM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #22

vachina wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’d need dedicated hardware to enforce any kind of effective DRM. Encrypted bitstream generated on the fly watchable only on L2 attested device.

Which is why Windows 11 requires TPM.