• blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.

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        1 year ago

        The problem with scraping is that while it’s difficult/impossible to block completely, it’s pretty easy to keep making changes to your site to disrupt scrapers. The work required by the scraper to adapt to those changes is usually way more than the work you put in to disrupt them.

        So if a commercial site wants to make scraping unreliable and impractical, they almost certainly can.