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Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption.

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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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Y'all could just pay πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make the app worth paying for. I pay for Nebula because its worth it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then don't use it f you like nebula. Why are you all wasting time bitching about an app that's not worth it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because they are thieves and hate having that pointed out to them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘πŸ€‘

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Better than being poor and delusional about being entitled to steal 🀣

I honestly love the bootlicker tag. It tells me everything I need to know about your alignment with reality. You just want to be mad to argue on the Internet. Nothing based in reality to offer. A sad deplorable existence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Woah now, be careful or you'll choke on all that corpo dick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Keep on going, almost there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's always ethical to steal from billion dollar corporations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but you have the expectations of them making it easy?

Folks in here feel entitled to the easy of blocking ads while simultaneously decrying the value of the service and refusal to pay.

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

I've never actually found it difficult to bypass the ads, despite their attempts. Literally, at least for now, you can use uBlock to block the warning lol

life finds a way

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do pay and I use SmartTube. If it stops working, I'll stop paying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The only legit complaint in this thread. I agree, that sucks ass. Shit like that makes stuff like f1tv(garbage app) bearable. I'd have quit without F1 multiviewer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to when the price was fair for family plan, but now I'm on the high seas. It's a price issue, they are making billions , no need to fleece us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

False. Fake news. You've just invented that out of nowhere like a desperate trumpet who doesn't know how to use Google.

YT has never made a dime unless that's changed in the last year. YT has always been a loss leader.

Stop lying to win internet arguments. It's pathetic and sad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Your info is very outdated, YouTube made billions in profit for years already

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It doesn't matter what YouTube makes. They belong to google, and the data they harvest goes to google as well. Their algorithm's influence on what people see and on their opinions contributes to google's success and political interests, just as Xitter does for Musk. And by staying "free" to use, they ensure that no competitor will likely rise up and take those benefits from them. If they try to shut out third party apps and browsers, that's because by forcing people into Chrome they can harvest even more data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know you’re getting downvoted here but there is a valid question there. It’s the largest streaming site on the internet which takes up massive amounts of storage and bandwidth. How do people propose it’s paid for? You generally either have to have ads (which it seems everyone hates) or you pay for a subscription (which everyone hates). So what is the best model to offset that cost? It’s not a public service.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem isn't ads or subscription fees, the problem is ads and subscription fees in addition to the data scraping. Google, and by extension Youtube, harvest your data from all over the internet and use it to sell ads. The data and CAPTCHAs you see all over from Google are trackers (that's how clicking a box can determine you're human) that ars harvesting data and fingerprinting your device to make you easier to identify.

In 2025, do you really want a demonstrably evil company that supports the American kleptocracy to have access to your data?

In comes freetube and invidious: responses to the above problem. By acting proxy to youtube you avoid the ads (which contain spyware) and you avoid downloading site data from Google (which likely contains spyware).

It isn't a payment issue, and the pirates aren't upset about costs, it's just that in the age of glass walls online, we want our fucking privacy back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay. So if they were willing to stop the data scraping, how many people do you think would be willing to pay for a subscription or increased ads to offset the costs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

More than you'd think, but if folks are like myself than not as many as g-daddy would need to justify the switch to a more legitimate model.

Personally, when a company unilaterally decides it can do whatever the πŸ¦† it wants with my data, I believe that road goes both ways, so I'll do whatever the πŸ¦† I want with theirs. Including downloading it without paying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

None of them. You know this answer. They would screech if it were $50 a month.

Just bring up kagi and see how many folks make up excuses why they suck and ain't worth it.

They just want a post facto reason to justify their pirating and stealing. They never were going to pay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

None of them.

Yeah. That's why Netflix went out of business so quickly.

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

You don't think Netflix scrapes your data to offset the price?

Y'all jumping through some wild hoops to win an internet argument 🀣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You're acting like A) it's not part of a company pulling down billion dollar profits and B) any loss isn't being used to depress tax paid by other arms of said company

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We already do, and this is what we get.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do people not recognize obvious bait anymore? Why did this comment get so much engagement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not bait. I think the service offers value and is worth the $15 a month if you use it a lot.

This is the media equivalent of leaving a shit steam review with 2000 hours clocked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

$15/yr and I'd be down. $15/mo can eat my ass.

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

This is the media equivalent of leaving a shit steam review with 2000 hours clocked.

There's a vast difference between Steam being good, and the content in Steam being good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not when I can't even get a DRM-free MP3 from the payments. If I could, I'd reconsider that.

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

I know I know, that's how the world works. You as the buyer get to set the terms 🀣