Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by observationist on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:21AM (#45361632)

ReVanced and other alternatives exist.

So long as they are broadcasting media to the public without an explicit login system, so as to take advantage of public access for exposure, it will remain perfectly legitimate and ethical to access the content through whatever browser or software you want.

After they blitzed me with ads and started arbitrarily changing features and degrading the experience, I stopped paying them and went for the free and adblocking clients and experience.

I may get rid of phones from my life entirely if they follow through with blocking third party apps and locking things down.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by mschuster91 on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:30AM (#45361764)

the problem is, you cannot be sure what Google does if they catch you violating their ToS. They have killed off entire google accounts for YT copyright strikes with no recourse.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by realusername on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:39AM (#45361880)

That's why I'm not using Google accounts for anything important, I left gmail in 2014 and I really advise everybody to do the same.

You never know when the hammer can drop.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by Akronymus on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:18PM (#45362503)

Yeah, same. I still have a gmail account that just forwards emails, and I update the email on services as they come on. Being on your own domain for email is just better.Though, I use a service provider to handle the mail server itself

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by bornfreddy on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:13PM (#45362428)

This. I simply don't understand why some people rely on Google given the risk level, impact and their no-recourse-except-maybe-public-shaming policy.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by fragmede on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:52PM (#45363734)

Google doesn't capriciously deprecate things in a short amount of time. When they sunset features, there's plenty of warning. They'll tell you that there's a hammer, that it's going to drop on you in 6 months, which is plenty of time for you to get out from under it. Which, I mean, I'd rather there not be a hammer, but it's not like they're gonna announce on a Friday that they're shutting down Google Keep on Monday and I need to wreck my whole weekend in order to save all my notes.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by catgirlinspace on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:11PM (#45363965)

The hammer isn't shutting down a service, it refers to your Google account getting banned for a violation or whatever reason they feel like.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by realusername on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:20PM (#45364092)

I'm not afraid of them deprecating Gmail, I'm afraid thar I wake up one day and the account is banned without recourse.

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by johnmaguire on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:02PM (#45363105)

> ReVanced and other alternatives exist.

For now. I suspect this is the real reason Google is going to require a developer cert even for sideloaded apps: https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/google-will-soon-st...

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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by poulpy123 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:51AM (#45370300)

> ReVanced and other alternatives exist.

until next year, when google will require real name and address for dev of side loaded apps

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