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.
I regularly forget to update it for 8 months and it has never broken for me
Yeah I don’t update ReVanced either until the google puts up a nag screen complaining about ending support for that particular version. Never had a problem.
My last phone I installed it on, I never updated the app. And that was like a good 18 months.