With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.

  • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    All the web integrity thing would do is force them to use a specific client when accessing YouTube to scrape their site.

    The problem is none of the attested browsers will let you to use them in this way.

    We already have DRM for video on the web. I believe it would be a similar problem to getting WideVine L1 content from e.g. Netflix in an open source app.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Ask me why I invested in Vimeo.

      But seriously, it will just make competitors thrive.

      I’ll pay for a nebula subscription before I sit through a single YouTube ad.