Youtube protects videos via browser DRM (No idea if it affects everybody)

[7.62x38mmR]

What about Brave?
They don't seem to care about that one and I imagine if someone switches from Firefox it's most likely to Brave.

It seems like they have either some backdoor into all chromium browsers or have something planned for the future.

dunno about cookies but i haven't had any ads in years thanks to brave so it definitely works well. youtube *tried* to play one some hours ago for the first time in god knows how long but ended up spazzing out so i just resetted the page and nothing since

 

[vomitusdeux]

king shit. keep up the oldwaremaxxing

If it's an optional update. I do not, it's my way of living.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

My extremely outdated version of firefox is fine

Same with SeaMonkey (which also uses an extremely outdated version of Gecko engine). It keeps nagging me to "UPDOOOOOOOOT your browser", but the videos play just fine.

 

[and and and and]

It serves you right for using firecuck and not a real browser like Brave or Opera

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Possibly related: it seems more and more videos not working in youtube.com/embed/[video code], with that "watch on YouTube" message.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

I saw a pop up on Firefox desktop while browsing YouTube earlier but didn't catch what it said before it crashed the browser. Haven't seen it after I restarted Firefox. Could be related to this? Who knows.

Opera

Opera died with Presto. It's just the name nowadays.

 

[generic sauce]

mpv+yt-dlp still working like a charm over here.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

IewTube is Gay. Google owns it. Google contracts for the U.S. DoD.

 

[Battlefield42]

I saw a pop up on Firefox desktop while browsing YouTube earlier but didn't catch what it said before it crashed the browser. Haven't seen it after I restarted Firefox. Could be related to this? Who knows.

Been getting weird crashes myself too just recently. Only seen weird shit happen with yt, other sites are fine.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I don't even understand what the point of this is, wouldn't that just limit the number of users who can view a video? Why would you arbitrarily restrict who can watch what content on the Internet based on geography like it's cable or Netflix? Wouldn't this defeat the whole point of having content on the Internet in the first place?

This is just another in a long line of signs that Youtube is in its death spiral.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Are you’re trying to record your screen but it’s stopping you? Click the three dots, go to settings, then go to system, then disable hardware acceleration when available.

*Edit* sorry I reread it. Not the same problem but I was half asleep when I read it.

 

[babaisyou]

I don't even understand what the point of this is, wouldn't that just limit the number of users who can view a video?

slight PL but as someone who works on and off on a YouTube frontend this might be them experimenting with trying to lockdown on third-party frontends like Invidious, yt-dlp and GrayJay. They've been doing this recently with Android and those who run custom firmware too, making passing the Play Integrity API check harder and harder to do.

>DRM on fucking YouTube videos

They already do this shit on movies that you can stream, YouTube can try all they want to prevent third-party frontends but at most this would disrupt non-browser based frontends (like yt-dlp) and those with older devices.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Currently it seems to be rolled out randomly like their Adblock ban thing they tried. This though will hurt them more as it's similar to the old Microsoft lawsuit back in the 1990's.

It serves you right for using firecuck and not a real browser like Brave or Opera

Opera

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

I'm having an issue where the video is stuck at the very end and looping. Any chance that"s related?

 

[RiceofSkywalker]

Don't they force a delay of 5 seconds on Firefox users?

Iirc it was just tripping the adblockers, not Firefox itself. Which leads to...

They really want you to switch to a Chrome-based browser.

But why?

1. Chromium browsers are dropping Manifest v2 support starting June - they'll be left with a crippled version of uBlock as a result.
2. Better data collecting, and not just ads and trackers. I bet all their bullshit AI training modules and data scrapers play better with Chrome, and much better starting next month.
3. Further cornering the market, if them being by far the largest donor to Firefox, basically their only competitor, wasn't bad enough.

 

[Creative Username]

I HATE MONOPOLIES I HATE MONOPOLIES I HATE MONOPOLIES I HATE MONOPOLIES
EDIT: AND DRM AND THE "MODERN" WEB AND PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

 

[Chen Stirner]

I just tested it on Brave and it works fine for me. However, I have noticed that YouTube uses a lot more RAM than it did in the past. Which incompetent Pajeet at Google is causing that problem?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I don't even understand what the point of this is, wouldn't that just limit the number of users who can view a video? Why would you arbitrarily restrict who can watch what content on the Internet based on geography like it's cable or Netflix? Wouldn't this defeat the whole point of having content on the Internet in the first place?

This is just another in a long line of signs that Youtube is in its death spiral.

They probably want another high profile lawsuit in Europe.

 

[Baguette Child]

I received the same result as OP when using the browser on my Nokia E90, just this morning. Both Opera Mini's Symbian version and the browser I'd written myself are encountering it. Not a big loss considering how rarely I find shit on youtube that's worth fucking watching, but it is an annoyance.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

It serves you right for using firecuck and not a real browser like Brave or Opera

Opera sells your info to fucking lowes