We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I wanted to archive a few channels, but was stopped by the lack of storage. Guess I'm out of luck as my storage upgrade is a long while away :(

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

With yt-dlp you can DL the videos at lower resolution / quality, so that at least you can have one offline working copy in the meantime.

[–] cymor@midwest.social 1 points 12 hours ago

Archive.org has a lot of storage.