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YouTube will start blocking third-party clients that don’t show ads

Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/youtube-will-start-blocking-third-party-clients-that-dont-show-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica This is quite bad, and I mean it

Google actually has the means to close off their mobile APIs, because trusted computing has completely taken over the mobile world, this would just leave the web browser version of YouTube wide open...

And then they could hit us with something like requiring a high security level of widevine to view higher resolutions, embedding ads in the video stream, or heck maybe they'll bring back web integrity and bully others into adopting it so they get a "usable" YouTube experience

Microsoft has actually opened up this possibility for them in a couple years thanks to windows 11 requiring TPMs to be turned on

We're talking a 65% attack on the web here

Sure nothing is unbreakable, but nobody's gonna torrent random YouTube videos, so the capacity to make the experience unbearable is there

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