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> Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers Well, if there's one thing to try to commend
by legitster 4y ago
> Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers
Well, if there's one thing to try to commend Musk here for, it's that he's trying to move away from just another "users are the product" business model.
- Comevius 4y agoYouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for offline use without any DRM.
- MallocVoidstar 4y agoI don't think this is true: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233 >Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 29 days. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to the internet. That sounds like DRM. The page also seems to suggest that you need to use youtube.com to watch videos, not a file on your system.
- Comevius 4y agoIt looks like you are right, it saves offline-enabled content to a number of encrypted blobs only the official app can play. I wouldn't now, I use yt-dlp that can also make use of YouTube cookies, since otherwise YouTube is not DRM protected like Netflix is for example.