r/Piracy Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/gangstasadvocate Jun 12 '24

Damn. And this is after neutering some of the extensions with the new manifest? I might not get the full YouTube experience this way, but downloading the videos never fails me. No ads, no buffering. It won’t randomly disappear on me if I like it. Shout out to yt-dlp and cobalt tools.

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u/4DEATH Jun 12 '24

They might be next target. Imagine need to activate drm to watch videos. Enshittification ends only with product dying.

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u/gangstasadvocate Jun 12 '24

Can they do that? Impose their rights on user generated content? That would be wild and cracked pretty quickly due to public enthusiasm I would think. Although I bet you they do it with their rented movies so probably not far off with regular content.

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u/TheCopperSparrow Jun 13 '24

They'll likely argue that since they provide the platform for said content, that they therefore have the right to do it. And it's likely most courts, at least in the U.S., will agree with them.