Google is reportedly experimenting with forced DRM on all YouTube videos
Google is reportedly experimenting with forced DRM on all YouTube videos
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cobalt (@cobalt.tools)
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 ...
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