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.

  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    1 year ago

    NewPipe at least already doesn’t use the API, it scrapes the website.

    … Which it just occurred to me might be one of the reasons Google is pushing that web integrity thing. Dang.

      • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        All the web integrity thing would do is force them to use a specific client when accessing YouTube to scrape their site.

        The problem is none of the attested browsers will let you to use them in this way.

        We already have DRM for video on the web. I believe it would be a similar problem to getting WideVine L1 content from e.g. Netflix in an open source app.

          • heimchen@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yea I think, if newpipe stops, I would switch to nebula. It would even help my yt addiction and I would support my youtubers without giving a share to youtube.

            • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’ve tried nebula because a video I wanted to watched on yt was released earlier there. That was the only video on the whole platform worth watching. It’s clickbait, you pay for.