this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
220 points (89.9% liked)

Technology

59666 readers
3831 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
220
My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
82 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

all of these are scrapers, so they will work unless YouTube gets rid of its web version

[–] kenbw2 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or if Google implements some kind of feature that requires your browser to vouch that it's not gonna play shenanigans with the page.

Nah, nobody would be that crazy.

[–] phoneymouse 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would this new thing they’re doing to chrome stop it?

[–] kenbw2 3 points 1 year ago

That's exactly the sort if thing they could use it for

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think they mean something like widevine a la Netflix. Granted there are bypasses for some levels, but that could be a problem imo, iiuc that's why there aren't any alternate frontends for Netflix or HBO. I think that would also potentially mean issues playing YouTube in chromium or firefox on Linux if they used L1 (not sure what the current state of widevine on Linux is, last time I had Netflix I couldn't watch on Linux and had to use my phone or Chromecast)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Or until they implement a trust model that denies access to uncertified user-agents?