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Is it possible to crack youtube ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by Docker_84@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Video uploading sites are supposed to be free. Social media is meant for the masses. Of course a user has the right to maintain privacy. In this case, video uploading sites like Peertube, rumble gives the option of keeping the video private. There's also a provision for unlisted videos, which can be watched only when the person has access to the link. Otherwise watching videos on social media is free.

Only youtube has this system of paying for watching videos.

So my question is, is there any means of cracking youtube so that we can have a share of the paid content as well ?

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 34 points 7 months ago

YouTube isn't a piece of software. It's a web service.

You can't "crack" it to trick it into thinking you have a license to use all of its features. The authentication required to access the paid content is a lot more complex than a program running on hardware you can control.

You're essentially asking the same question as people who want to access netflix for free.

The answer is no. But someone else might've ripped the content you want to see and made it available as a torrent.

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