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This is news from a month ago, but apparently YouTube is currently experimenting with adding DRM to all videos, but only if you're using certain clients and your user is in the respective A/B test group.
Normal browsers are not affected, but yt-dlp for example is. (Again, only for _some_ users.)
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563
Hacker News has some additional explanations:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321145
In short: No reason to panic, but some concern is appropriate.
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I just filed an improvement issue
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/5589
with the goal to make yt-dlp #ytdlp #yt_dlp #Mastodon media aware including metadata like author, handle, text.