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This is going to break yt-dlp. YouTube won't fight it for that reason. It's regulatory capture.

• reddalo 1y ago
  yt-dlp can fetch cookies from your browser, so no, it won't break it. If YouTube really did want to stop yt-dlp, they'd encrypt all the videos with Widevine.
  • echelon_musk 1y ago
    > yt-dlp can fetch cookies from your browser, so no, it won't break it. It probably breaks anonymous access to videos (when not signed in to a Google account). Unless yt-dlp provide shared cookies that its thousands of users can use there will still be account level tracking of video access.
    • reddalo 1y ago
      That's sure. But it's already like that for most NSFW videos on YouTube.