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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely as long as there's a way to access YouTube on devices without attestation, this won't kill anything.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. And if they decide to brick or degrade all legacy apps, people will just transcode and torrent.

Information wants to be free, and millions of people have the skills to make it happen.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright, and Google doesn’t need to pay for that, so win win?

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The irony is that it will probably cost Google way more due to the overhead of DRM for normal users than what they save on "lost" capacity in the current situation.