This is news from a month ago, but apparently YouTube is currently experimenting with adding DRM to all videos, but only if you're using certain clients and your user is in the respective A/B test group.
Normal browsers are not affected, but yt-dlp for example is. (Again, only for
some users.)
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563Hacker News has some additional explanations:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321145In short: No reason to panic, but some concern is appropriate.
#YouTube #yt_dlp #YTDLP #DRM