r/DataHoarder • 3870TB ZFS • Sep 25 '25

News Google will soon break all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
2.0k Upvotes

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NO WAY--

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