We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

  • RiQuY@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    My only hope is that Google goes bankrupt and people migrate to other places, but sadly that’s not feasible atm.

    • 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Google going bankrupt would almost certainly mean YouTube disappears. Which can happen, but it’s not a good thing

      • Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 hours ago

        In the good timeline, multiple governments and international organizations launch peertube servers.

        Probably not this timeline though.