wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Yt-dlp, NewPipe, Invidious...
It'll be a very sad day when those no longer work.
The day they no longer work is the day I stop watching youtube.
Atm they currently work by scraping the website itself in a similar way to how a regular user would use it. They would probably have to force you have account and rate limit the amount of videos (e.g. only one video at a time per account) in order to even try to tamp down on these, or somehow change the law to make scraping their site illegal (youtube-dl [and now probably Invidious] has faced legal threats but they have been dropped because there's no case). Even if they went full Twitter I'm sure someone would find a way to make a bunch of anonymous Gmail accounts, like Aurora store uses, so that people can still watch videos for free.
TarTube. Keep an entire catalogue of ripped channels, playlists etc. although I use the classic download module because its database notoriously breaks constantly.