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Re:YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients by gruez on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:53PM (#43328019)
define "low trust". Firefox with resistfingerprinting, DRM disabled, a VPN connection can view 4K videos just fine.
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Re:YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients by brigade on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:03PM (#43328086)
Low trust as in intended to be used by 3rd parties without Javascript or any form of attestation. Like the Wii U client or I think the iframe embeds at one point.

(maybe they've all been killed by now, I haven't been paying too much attention...)

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Re:YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients by philistine on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:43PM (#43336298)
All of what you're describing jumps to trustworthy if you're signed in. yt-dlp tries to work without any login.
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