IDK really.

I don’t dislike it in a “this is terrible technology and no one should be doing it” kind of a way. Just in a “I feel a bit icky about this” kind of way.

There must be privacy considerations right? Do I really want everyone to know what videos I’m watching?

Also, do I really want my client to be providing n upstream connections grinding away at my battery?

They’ve probably long since solved this I guess but in the early days firefox wasn’t supported ?

I just… don’t feel like this is the solution to the cost of delivering content.

I’m not an expert on these things but I just don’t like the idea of web torrent.

I do however, whole heartedly agree that video producers should pay for their own bandwidth, and be supported by users.

I don’t think Brave has any special magic that other browsers don’t.

My understanding is, all the workarounds in use recently work or fail depending on the IP address you have.

I don’t know anything about this change but it seems to simply require a JS engine in your client. Any browser has that, so the browser addons probably aren’t effected by this change.

However, it’s clear that YT is waging an incremental campaign here. Today it’s yt-dlp, next week… who knows.

invidious, yt-dlp, and freetube have broken so many times for me over the last 6 months, I’ve fallen out of the habit of using YT lately anyway.

It sucks because there is content there that I want but I’m not going to whore myself for it.