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 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	freefaler 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think that too. When the people refresh their TVs with the newer, more DRM friendly/updated version this channel will meet its end :(

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somat 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My understanding is that the original yt-dl used the browser interface. yt-dlp uses the android app interface.

	▲	Thorrez 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>This impacts yt-dlp as we currently request video data from YouTube as if we were YouTube on TV. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563

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goku12 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Moving to native app makes it much easier to prevent downloading and denying access to the unencrypted content.

It would still be possible with native apps. Somebody will have to reverse engineer it continuously. So it will be slower, but still possible.

However, that won't be the case if they start using some secret (like a private key) that you can't access directly from an app, or if they decide that you can't run custom/modified apps. That's what I believe to be the true intentions behind their push to adopt dystopian technologies like secure enclaves and platform attestation. Not really about security as they claim.

	▲	nicce 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That's what I believe to be the true intentions behind their push to adopt dystopian technologies like secure enclaves and platform attestation. Not really about security as they claim. Yeah, that is exactly I was thinking.

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bluGill 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Doesn't matter, yt-dlp looks like a browser to youtube. They can put authorization/encryption in an app that can't be done in a webpage. By killing browsers they gain control.

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hu3 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They know that. yt-dlp uses browser-like access to download.