It's their application, yt-dlp can use whatever it wants. But they made their choices for stylistic/aesthetic reasons.
It being a checkbox feature is a weird way to frame it too, because that typically implies you’re just adding a feature to match your competitors, but their main competitors don’t have that feature.
In what ways does it fall short? If there are major gaps, I’d like to know because I’ve been relying on it (for personal projects only myself, but I’ve recommended it to others for commercial projects).
To me this is a bit alarming as IIRC most app runtime libraries that also have this in-runtime-only sandboxing approach are moving away from that idea precisely because it is not resistant to attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in the runtime itself, pushing platform developers instead toward process-level system kernel-enforced sandboxing (Docker containers or other Linux cgroups, Windows AppContainer, macOS sandboxing, etc.).
So for example, .NET dropped its Code Access Security and AppDomain features in recent versions, and Java has now done the same with its SecurityManager. Perl still has taint mode but I wonder if it too will eventually go away.
You're welcome
Maybe, for watching "recommended" stream without any subscriptions there are alternatives (which? I cannot name good ones, anyway), but if you watch your subscription you are bound to platform which contain this subscription. And no, content creators are not interchangeable.
Awaiting their “premium cannot be shared with people outside household” policy so I can finally cancel. Family members make good use of ad-free.
I was also a holdover from a paying Play Music subscriber, and this was shortly after the pita music switchover to youtube, so it was a last straw.
While it doesn’t totally remove it, it lets me choose if I want to watch or not, and gets me past it in a single button press. All using the native app. I was surprised the first time this happened. I assume the creators hate it.
I'm in a Spanish speaking country, but I want to watch English videos in English.
Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!
The first time I saw this feature, it was on a cover of some pop song in a foreign language. Why on Earth... ?
Sames languages as you. It drives me nuts because the translations are almost always wrong.
That's been a policy for a while, the sign up page prominently says "Plan members must be in the same household".
No idea if its enforced though.
I finally got so fed up, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 off ebay for $50 and flashed it with LineageOS. I can now load whatever media I want onto the 1 TB sdcard I've installed in it. The 5 year old hardware plays videos just fine with the VLC app. And, as a bonus, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. I was planning on using yt-dlp to load up the sdcard, but now I don't even need to do that.
The TIDAL app is absolute trash, it has this same issue all the time; not just that, but also, if a download fails it just hangs there and does not download the rest of the album/playlist.
Also, why would you want to download things in the first place? To watch them offline, right? Well, guess what happens when you open the app w/o an internet connection ... it asks you to login, so you cannot even access your music. 900k/year TOC genius work there.
The only reason why I haven't canceled is because I'm too lazy to reset my password in order to login and cancel, lol. Might do it soon, though.
Then I have good news for you! https://lifehacker.com/tech/youtube-family-premium-crackdown
In fact, I've got an email from them about this already. My YT is still ad-free though, so not sure when it's going to kick in for real.
We are not the same.
1. Unlimited YouTube Premium
2. Unlimited drink reimbursement (coffee, tea, smoothies, whatever)
The psychological sense of loss from those two things would be larger than any 5% raise.
I recently got paused for "watching on another device" when I wasn't. I don't think that policy you mention is too far off.
So long as they are broadcasting media to the public without an explicit login system, so as to take advantage of public access for exposure, it will remain perfectly legitimate and ethical to access the content through whatever browser or software you want.
After they blitzed me with ads and started arbitrarily changing features and degrading the experience, I stopped paying them and went for the free and adblocking clients and experience.
I may get rid of phones from my life entirely if they follow through with blocking third party apps and locking things down.
You never know when the hammer can drop.
Feels like the app has passed the complexity threshold of what the team responsible for it can handle. Or possibly, too much AI code and not enough review and testing. And those don't have to be exclusive possibilities.
Giving you the bytes would be easy, the hard part is preventing the free flow of information. And those bugs are the side effects.
[1]: https://choubey.gitbook.io/internals-of-deno/architecture/v8
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/yt_dlp/jsin...
Here are lines 431 through 433:
if expr.startswith('new '):
obj = expr[4:]
if obj.startswith('Date('):The submission is literally about them moving away from it in favor of Deno, so I think "never" probably gets pretty close.
I wonder why. Perhaps because people use bots to mass-crawl contents from youtube to train their AI. And Youtube prioritizes normal users who only watch a few videos at most at the same time, over those crawling bots.
Who knows?
My point was that the large players have monopoly hold on large swaths of the internet and are using it to further advantage themselves over the competition. See Veo 3 as an example, YouTube creators didn’t upload their work to help Google train a model to compete with them but Google did it anyways, and creators didn’t have a choice because all eye balls are on YouTube.
By scraping every page and directing the traffic back to the site owners. That was how Google built their empire.
Are they abusing the empire's power now? In multiple ways, such as the AI overview stuff. But don't pretend that crawling Youtube and training video generation models is the same as what Google (once) brought to the internet. And it's ridiculous to expect Youtube to make it easy for crawlers.
PoToken - Proof of origin token which Google has lately been enforcing for all clients, or video requests will fail with a 403. On android it uses DroidGuard, for IOS, it uses built in app integrity apis. For the web it requires that you run a snippet of javascript code (the challenge) in the browser to prove that you are not a bot. Previously, you needed an external tool to generate these PoTokens but with the Deno change yt-dlp should be capable of producing these tokens by itself in the near future.
SABR - Server side adaptive bitrate streaming, used alongside Google's UMP protocol to allow the server to have more control over buffering, given data from the client about the current playback position, buffered ranges, and more. This technology is also used to do server-side ad injection. Work is still being done to make 3rd party clients work with this technology (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't).
Nsig/sig extraction example:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/4429fd0450a3fbd5e89573...
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/4429fd0450a3fbd5e89573...
PoToken generation:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide
- https://github.com/LuanRT/BgUtils
SABR:
- https://github.com/LuanRT/googlevideo
EDIT2: Addeded more links to specific code examples/guides
Now you know.
- AI companies scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data. Imagine how many data YT has.
- YT competitors in other countries scraping YT to copy videos, especially in countries where YT is blocked. Some such companies have a function "move all my videos from YT" to promote bloggers migration.
(not debating the validity of this reason, but this is the entire reason Youtube exists, to sell and push ads)
Like Google?
>scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data
Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?
Like Google competitors obviously.
> Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?
Yes, but if you allowed to index your site (companies even spent money to make site better indexable), Google used to bring customers and AI companies bring back nothing. They are just freeloaders.
The reasons are similar for Cloudflare, but their stances are a bit too DRMish for my tastes. I guess someone could draw the lines differently.
It doesn't. That interferes with google's ad revenue stream, which is why YT continues to try to make it harder and harder to do so.
What? What does this even mean? Who "trusts" youtube? It's filled with disinformation, AI slop and nonsense.
The solution: have clients prove they are a legitimate client by running some computationally intensive JS that interacts with DOM APIs, etc. (which is not in any way unique to big tech, see Anubis/CreepJS etc.)
The impact on the hobbyist use case is, to them, just collateral damage.
Having no reliable feedback makes it so much harder for a viewbotter to find a workaround.
If there's a visible block on video downloads? They're not fighting viewbots with that.
Even if they hadn't done that, you can craft millions of bot-sponsored views using a legitimate browser and some automation and the current update doesn't change that.
So I'd say Occam's razor applies and Youtube simply wants to be in control of how people view their videos so they can serve ads, show additional content nearby to keep them on the platform longer, track what parts of the video are most watched, and so on.
They pay a lot of money to many smart people who can implement sophisticated bot detection systems, without impacting most legitimate human users. But when their business model depends on extracting value from their users' data, tracking their behavior and profiling them across their services so that they can better serve them ads, it goes against their bottom line for anyone to access their service via any other interface than their official ones.
This is what these changes are primarily about. Preventing abuse is just a side benefit they can use as an excuse.
I disagree with the framing of "us vs them".
It's actually "us vs us". It's not just us plebians vs FAANG giants. The small-time independent publishers and creators also want to restrict the web because they don't want their content "stolen". They want to interact with real humans instead of bots. The following are manifestations of the same fear:
- small-time websites adding Anubis proof-of-work
- owners of popular Discord channels turning on the setting for phone # verification as a requirement for joining
- web blogs wanting to put a "toll gate" (maybe utilize Cloudflare or other service) to somehow make OpenAI and others pay for the content
We're long past the days of colleagues and peers of ARPANET and NFSNET sharing info for free on university computers. Now everybody on the globe wants to try to make a dollar, and likewise, they feel dollars are being stolen from them.
Those were already public. The issue is AI bot ddos-ing the server. Not everyone has infinite bandwith.
> owners of popular Discord channels turning on the setting for phone # verification as a requirement for joining
I still think that Discord is a weird channel for community stuff. There's a lot of different format for communication, but people are defaulting to chat.
> web blogs wanting to put a "toll gate" (maybe utilize Cloudflare or other service) to somehow make OpenAI and others pay for the content
Paid contents are good (Coursera, O'Reilly, Udemy,...). But a lot of these services wants to have free powered by ads (for audience?).
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The fact is, we have two main bad actors: AI companies hammering servers and companies that want to centralize content (that they do not create) by adding gatekeeping extension to standard protocols.
I'm not in it for the dollar. I just want the licenses I put on my content/code to be respected, that's all. IOW, I don't what I put out there to be free forever (as in speech and beer) to be twisted and monetized by the people who re in this for the dollar.
Fast forward fifty years and smell the rot. That same fiscal recklessness Congress spending like drunken sailors while pretending deficits don't matter has bled into every pore of society. Why wouldn't it? When BlackRock scoops up entire neighborhoods with Fed-printed cash while your kid can't afford a studio apartment, people notice. When Tyson jacks up chicken prices to record profits while diners can't afford bacon, people feel it. And when some indie blogger slaps a paywall on their life's work because OpenAI vacuumed their words to train ChatGPT? That's the same disease wearing digital clothes.
We're all living in Nixon's hangover. The "us vs us" chaos you see Discord servers demanding your phone number, small sites gatekeeping against bots, everyone scrambling to monetize scraps that's what happens when trust evaporates. Just like the dollar became Monopoly money after '71, everything feels devalued now. Your labor? Worth less each year. Your creativity? Someone's AI training fuel. Your neighborhood? A BlackRock asset on a spreadsheet.
And Washington's still at it! Printing trillions to "save the economy" while inflation eats your paycheck alive. Passing trillion-dollar "infrastructure bills" that somehow leave bridges crumbling but defense contractors swimming in cash. It's the same old shell game: socialize the losses, privatize the gains. The factory worker paying $8 for eggs understands this. The nurse getting lectured about "wage spirals" while hospital CEOs pocket millions understands this. The teenager locking down their Discord because bots keep spamming scams? They understand this.
Weimar happened when money became meaningless. 1971 happened when promises became meaningless. What you're seeing now the suspicion, the barriers, the every-man-for-himself hustle is what bubbles up when people realize the whole system's running on fumes. The diner owner charging $18 for a burger isn't greedy. The blogger blocking AI scrapers isn't a Luddite. They're just building levees against a flood Washington started with a printing press half a century ago.
The tragedy is that we're all knee-deep in the same muddy water, throwing sandbags at each other while the real architects of this mess the political grifters, the Fed bankers, the extraction-engine capitalists watch dry-eyed from their high ground. Until we stop accepting their counterfeit money and their counterfeit promises, we'll keep drowning in this rigged game. The gold window didn't just close in '71. The whole damn social contract rusted shut.
- small content creators who want to make their content accessible to individuals
- companies that want to gobble up public data and resell it in a way that destroys revenue streams for content creators
- gatekeepers like Cloudflare who want to ostensibly stop this but will also become rent-extractors in the process
- users who should have the right to use personal tools like yt-dlp to customize their viewing experience, and do not wish to profit at the expense of the creators
We should be cautious both that the gatekeepers stand to profit from their gatekeeping, and that their work inhibits users as well.
If creators feel this type of user (often a dedicated fan and would-be promoter) is a necessary sacrifice to defend against predatory data extractors… then that’s absolutely the creator’s choice, but you can’t say there’s a unified “us” here.
This is why the DMCA will never be repealed, DRM will never go away, and there is no future for general purpose computing. People want access digital content, but the creators of that content wouldn't release it at all if they knew that it could be copied endlessly by whomever receives it.
... or just keep their site on the Internet. There hasn't been any major progress on sanctioning bad actors - be it people running vulnerable IoT crap that ends up being taken over by a botnet, cybercriminals and bulletproof hosters, or nation state actors. As long as you don't attack targets from your own geopolitical class (i.e. Russians don't attack Russians, a lot of malware will just quit if it spots Russian locale), you can do whatever the fuck you want.
And that is how we end up with darknet services where you can trivially order a DDoS taking down a website you don't like or, if you manage to get your opponent's IP leaked during an online game, their residential IP address. Pay with whatever shitcoin you have, and no one is any wiser who the perpetrator is.
Nowadays, producing anything feels like being the cows udder.
The web as we knew it before ChatGPT was built around the idea that humans have to scavenge for information, and while they're doing that, you can show them ads. In that world, content didn't need to be too protected because you were making up for it in eyeballs anyway.
With AI, that model is breaking down. We're seeing a shift towards bot traffic rather than human traffic, and information can be accessed far more effectively and, most importantly, without ad impressions. So, it makes total sense for them to be more protective about who has access to their content and to make sure people are actually paying for it, be it with ad views or some other form of agreement.
Ads are coming to AI. The big AI push next will be context, your context all the time. Your phone will “help” and get all your data to OpenAI…
“It looks like you went for a run today? Good job, you deserve a treat! Studies show a little ice cream after a long run is effectively free calories! It just so happens the nearest Dairy Queen is running a promotion just for the next 30 minutes. I’m getting you directions now.”
I laugh at people who think ActivityPub or Mastodon or BlueSky will save us. We already had that, it was called e-mail, look what happened once everyone started using it.
If we couldn't stop the centralization effects that occurred on e-mail, any attempt to stop centralization in general is honestly a utopian fool's errand. Regulation is easier.
Regulation would be great. The EU does it well. It is lacking in the US, and will be for some time. And so we have to downgrade to technical mitigations against centralization until regulation can meet the burden.
How does this prove you are not a bot. How does this code not work in a headless Chromimum if it's just client side JS?
I have a little experience with Selenium headless on Facebook. Facebook tests fonts, SVG rendering, CSS support, screen resolution, clock and geographical settings, and hundreds of other things that give it a very good idea of whether it's a normal client or Selenium headless. Since it picks a certain number of checks more or less at random and they can modify the JS each time it loads, it is very, very complicated to simulate.
Facebook and Instagram know this and allow it below a certain limit because it is more about bot protection than content protection.
This is the case when you have a real web browser running in the background. Here we are talking about standalone software written in Python.
There are a whole host of tricks relating to rendering and positioning at the edge of the display window and canvas rather than the window, which allow you to detect execution without rendering.
To simulate all this correctly, you end up with a standard browser, standard execution times, full rendering in the background, etc. No one wants to download their YouTube video at 1x speed and wait for the adverts to finish.
Amazing how they simply couldn't win - you deliver content to client, the content goes to the client. Could be the largest corporation of the world and we still have yt-dlp.
That's why all of them wanted proprietary walled gardens where they would be able to control the client too - so you get to watch the ads or pay up.
Yes, we have archive.org. We need more than that, though.
I’m sure there’s some distributed solution like IPFS but I haven’t seen any serious attempt to make this accessible to every day people.
It is the same reason why people just can't get off IG. Network effect and in YT case a lot of disk space and bandwidth.
I admit I haven’t looked into peertube, and I didn’t think that rumble was any better than YouTube. I don’t recognize the others. Thank you; I’ll resurvey.
There are many thousands of paid hosting services, feel free to pick one. It turns out hosting TB of data for free is a pretty tricky business model to nail down.
And even if the legal attacks could be mitigated most people would still use youtube because they're there for the money (or for people who are there for the money). They are not there for a video host. Youtube enables distribution of money and there's no way that any government would let any free system distribute money without even more intense legal, and indeed physically violent, attacks.
Maybe there is an opportunity for that company to expand.
YouTube's economy of scale goes way beyond having their own datacenters, they have edge caches installed inside most ISP networks which soak up YT traffic before it even reaches a Google DC. You can't compete with them on price without a staggeringly huge buildout.
Almost 25 years on the internet and I have not been able to download anything from IPFS. Does one need a PhD to do so?
CSAM peddlers, intellectual property violators, unconsensual sexual material ("revenge porn"), malware authors looking for places to exfiltrate stolen data, propagandists and terrorists, the list of abusers is as long as it is dire.
And for some of these abuser classes, the risk for any storage service is high. Various jurisdictions require extremely fast and thorough responses for a service provider to not be held liable, sometimes with turnaround times of 24 hours or less (EU anti terrorism legislation), sometimes with extremely steep fines including prison time for responsible persons. Hell, TOR exit node providers have had their homes raided and themselves held in police arrest or, worse, facing criminal prosecution and prison time particularly for CSAM charges - and these are transit providers, not persistent storage.
And all of that's before looking on the infrastructure provider side. Some will just cut you off when you're facing a DDoS attack, some will bring in extortionate fees (looking at you, AWS/GCE/Azure) for traffic that may leave you in personal bankruptcy. And if you are willing to take that risk, you'll still run the challenge of paying for the hardware itself - storage isn't cheap, 20TB of storage will be around 200€ and you want some redundancy and backups, so the actual cost will rather be 60-100€/TB plus the ongoing cost of electricity and connectivity.
That's why you're not seeing much in terms of democratization.
But if they decide they have to, they can do it fairly trivially.
You already need such things for certain formats.
This solution looks interesting, but I am technical enough to know that this looks like a PITA to setup and maintain. It also seems like it is focused on downloading everything from a subbed channel.
As it is now, with a folder of downloaded videos, I just need a local web server that can interpret the video names and create an organized page with links. Is there anything like this that is very lightweight with a next next finish install?
"yt-dlp moves to Deno runtime"
What tool can I use to simply store what my browser receives anyway, in a single video file?
It's inconsistent as fuck, and even TOR exit nodes still work without a log in sometimes.
Good on Google for kicking people while they're down.
I wish content creators would think of their own good more, and start publishing on multiple platforms. Are there any terms that YouTube has for them, that reduce revenue, if they publish elsewhere as well? Or is it mostly just them being unaware?
This. I'm interested in such a tool or browser extension.
I want them to go overboard. I want BigTech to go nuts on this stuff. I want broken systems and nonsense.
Because that’s the only way we’re going to get anything better.
At this point I don't know - I still have the feeling that "they just need to make it 50% worse again and we'll get a competitor," but I've seen too many of these platforms get 50% worse too many times, and the network effect wins out every time.
It doesn't work. There aren't any collapses like that to be had. Big change happens incrementally, a bit of refactoring and a few band-aids at a time, and pushing to make things worse doesn't help.
You can step away from the world (right now, no waiting required). But the world can remain irrational longer than you can wait for it to step away from you, and pushing for more irrationality won't make a dent in that.
Luckily all that is becoming a non-issue, as most content on these websites isn't worth scraping anymore.
All thanks to great ideas like downloading the whole internet and feeding it into slop-producing machines fueling global warming in an attempt to make said internet obsolete and prop up an industry bubble.
The future of the internet is, at best, bleak. Forget about openness. Paywalls, authwalls, captchas and verification cans are here to stay.
What you want is to just download the 10-20kb html file, maybe a corresponding css file, and any images referenced by the html. Then if you want the video you just get the video file direct.
Simple and effective, unless you have something to sell.
> unless you have something to sell
Video hosting and its moderation is not cheap, sadly. Which is why we don't see many competitors.
(before you ask: Vimeo is getting sold to an enshitification company)
It's it's always been very apparent that YouTube are doing _just enough_ to stop downloads while also supporting a global audience of 3 billion users.
If the world all had modern iPhones or Android devices you'd bet they'd straight up DRM all content
And I call that a theory for a reason. Creators can still download their videos from YT Studio, I'm not sure how much importance there is on being able to download any video ever (and worst case scenario people could screen recording videos)
Its such a shithole, with no real replacement, sad state of affairs.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own...
For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU.
However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvFZjo5PgG0
While they worsen the user experience, other sites optimize their players and don't seem to care about downloaders (pr0n sites, for example).
"Other JS runtimes (node/bun) could potentially be supported in the future, the issue is that they do not provide the same security features and sandboxing that deno has. You would be running untrusted code on your machine with full system access. At this point, support for other JS runtimes is still TBD, but we are looking in to it."
> Why can't we embed a lightweight interpreter such as QuickJS?
> @Ronsor #14404 (comment)
The linked comment [2]:
> @dirkf This solution was tested with QuickJS which yielded execution times of >20 minutes per video
How on earth can it be that terrible compared to Deno?
[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...
[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...
QuickJS uses a bytecode interpreter (like Python, famously slow), and is optimised for simplicity and correctness. Whereas Deno uses a JIT compiler (like Java, .NET and WASM). Deno uses the same JIT compiler as Chrome, one of the most heavily-optimised in the world.
That doesn't normally lead to such a large factor in time difference, but it explains most of it, and depending on the type of code being run, it could explain all of it in this case.
QuickJIT (a fork of QuickJS that uses TCC for JIT) might yield better results, but still slower than Deno.
[^1]: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless
[^2]: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/getting_started/command_line_i...
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
We have an old SCSI scanner, so it took about as long to scan it as it did to write it.
Then you open it up to third party businesses and get them tied to your platform, making money off your users.
Once locked in you turn the screws on the businesses to extract as much money from them as possible.
Finally you turn the screws on the users to extract every last bit of value from the platform before it withers and fades into irrelevance.
I have learned so much from YouTube - I wish it was more open and friendly to its creators and users :(
In the meantime, all we can do is support smaller alternatives like https://nebula.tv/
A huge thank you to the yt-dlp folks. They do amazing work.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extracto...
It's also common to have the non-Python (here, Rust) source in source distributions ("sdists"), but this project's sdist is only a few kilobytes and basically functions as a meta-package (and also includes no license info). It "builds" Deno by detecting the platform, downloading a corresponding zip from the GitHub releases page, extracting the standalone Rust executable, and then letting Hatchling (a popular build tool in the Python ecosystem) repackage that in a wheel.
Update: It turns out that the Python package is published by a third party, so I submitted an issue (https://github.com/manzt/denop/issues/1) to ask about the licensing.
But it’s a real mess it keeps crashing, something I might too humbly put down to me having too many files, but passive aggressively put it down to YouTube on iPad not having a limited amount of storage space.
On the other hand there’s a number of amazing videos I’ve downloaded to watch which have been remotely wiped. Grrr
I don't promote piracy, but it seems that it's easier to download music from youtube than using torrents, which is quite surprising.
Who expected that such a big company would contribute to piracy?
progbits•3h ago
Is it just a lot of CPU-bound code and the modern JIT runtimes are simply that much faster, or is it doing some trickery that deno optimizes well?
progbits•3h ago
> Currently, a new style of player JS is beginning to be sent where the challenge code is no longer modular but is hooked into other code throughout the player JS.
So it's no longer a standalone script that can be interpreted but it depends on all the other code on the site? Which could still be interpreted maybe but is a lot more complex and might need DOM etc?
Just guessing here, if anyone knows the details would love to hear more.
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I mean, running some unknown highly obfuscated CPU-demanding JS code on your machine - and using its results to decide whether to permit or deny video downloads.
The enshittification will continue until user morale improves.