looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

  • gunnm
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    1 year ago

    If they go after NewPipe and SmartTube I’m going to shill hard the alternatives.

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      1 year ago

      There are alternatives for YouTube? PeerTube is great tech and all, but content is really rare there.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah is the only good alternative.