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by no_time 812 days ago
All of these projects are on borrowed time. The fact that we have them at all right now is a testament to how good we have it in IT as a whole. Market conditions being so good that I can piss away terabytes of their bandwidth with Newpipe et al and it doesn't worth dedicating one engineer to deploy safetynet on the Android&ios endpoints, and perhaps Widevine on the desktop ones.

It will be a real "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" moment when this inevitably happens. Since I won't give them any money out of principle, that will be the end of my days of watching YT.

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Widevine video encryption really kicked my ass the other day. It's supposed to be bypassable but I've yet to find a practical option that doesn't require hours of fiddling.
you can use https://cdm-project.com/Android-Tools/dumper-diazole.git

it uses frida to make dumping l3 keys really easy (start frida, run the script, open firefox, visit a test DRM page, profit??)

If you're happy with 480p.