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.
At lease there is ton of quality videos and channel that you can watch in you tube unlike peer tube that 99.9% of videos are terrible quality videos. The AI slop i can simply ignore. I would like to love peertube but it is trash unlike pixeled which is not perfect and have many half backed features but I can find many great creators and great photos. Pixelfed reduced by usage of instagram by 95%