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youtube’s been testing various ways of limiting access, both for downloaders and real users with adblockers most fucked up experiment being forced DRM for ALL videos, even those that are licensed as CC: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 feels like it will only get worse from now on 🫠

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

  • lambaliciousEnglish
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    9 days ago

    if we somehow figure out how to do video with massively less bandwidth

    Start with making videos smaller! Most (about 99%) video on the internet doesn’t need to be 4K or even 1K; stuff like “head talking about product” content creators can just be 480p or even 360p without issue. That eases bandwidth issues a good lot.

      • lambaliciousEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Oh for sure, they totally don’t need to exist (in particular the “head talking to promote product” kind). But if they are to exist anyway, it’s easier on the selfhosters if they keep them small, which means fewer arguments against setting up your own instance (or joining in to some sort of coöp instance) which helps promote Peertube and this kind of sharing in general.

        That said, I would not be opposed to 144p / 3gp from the old Nokia days.