This yt-dlp Bug Report Shows Us That the Future of YouTube is DRM and It's Time to Leave (yt-dlp Should Also Leave Microsoft GitHub, Which Censors YouTube Downloaders)
GAFAM traps aren't "free hosting"; they herd us all into a world of tollbooths and locks, surveillance and planned obsolescence (you own nothing, you only rent)
3 days ago about leaving YouTube: No, We Don't Want to Go "Viral" (and You Probably Don't, Either)
yt-dlp has not been working well lately. Whenever people uploaded videos of Richard Stallman to YouTube we could not download to convert them. We could barely find any reliable Invidious instances either. The URLs we linked to won't work one day, maybe not even next month.
It's time to quit YouTube. Stop uploading to it. It'll only get worse. This past weekend:
Yes, mandatory DRM. Soon attestation and forced ads that one cannot technically bypass? YouTube is desperate for profit.
Don't wait for the water to be boiling, you naive frog. The water is already very hot. █