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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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[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

GrayJay still seems to work

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Yay for Deno!

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

uYouPlus is working just fine

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehhhh they didn't break GrayJay.

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Seems pretty broken to me. Nothing is loading now.

Edit: Although NewPipe does seem to be working fine for me, even without an update.

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