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xeonmc ◴[] No.45899355[source]
In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
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BinaryIgor ◴[] No.45899465[source]
It's not YouTube though, but downloader :)

"yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc."

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nicce ◴[] No.45899501[source]
I guess the point was that yt-dlp is only possible, because of the mandatory protocols you need in the browser. Moving to native app makes it much easier to prevent downloading and denying access to the unencrypted content.
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easton ◴[] No.45899551[source]
I think these days yt-dlp is possible because they're relying on the infra YouTube has for their TV apps, which are html5 (ish) browser apps. so they'd also have to dedicate time to building native apps for every TV in existence, even if youtube.com went away.
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1. freefaler ◴[] No.45900162[source]
I think that too. When the people refresh their TVs with the newer, more DRM friendly/updated version this channel will meet its end :(