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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a while, it was getting blocked regularly and a new update would come out that fixed it. Repeat.

[–] InverseParallax 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's be honest, they never took it seriously at all.

They could push a patch for encrypted streams to chrome and even firefox, basically you need a google account to watch videos, wouldn't be optimal but they could get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ytdl has login parameters. It would still get cracked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hulu with ads displays no ads when watching in a browser with uBlock origin. I don't know if this is down to lazy design by Hulu or not but it's another data point