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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.

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[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Grayjay still seems to work.

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

about +12 hours ago spotdl (which uses yt-dlp) was broken. But I keep go on watching videos on newpipe

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

using smarttube. works fine 4 me

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[–] mrpollo@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

Yt-dlp worked for me 3 hours ago

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

my yt-dlp is on a daily auto-update loop, so I missed this. It's working still. My thanks go to the amazing yt-dlp devs.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

PipePipe works fine when logged out.

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[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Invidious still works!

Edit: not all instances :(

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[–] suff@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

Tubular for Android of which I thought it uses yt_dlp, still works well.

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