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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 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Grayjay still seems to work.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I've had it fail to load a lot of stuff today. Something's definitely up.

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[–] suff@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The day smart tube next stops working is the day i stop using youtube. I will NEVER watch a shitty youtube ad and I'm sure as shit not paying google any money whatsoever.

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[–] mrpollo@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Yt-dlp worked for me 3 hours ago

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Invidious still works!

Edit: not all instances :(

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

IS THIS WHY SEAL ISN'T WORKING OH NOOO

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

smartube, rvx, tubular works like before.

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