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YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients


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We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv(TVHTML5) Innertube client. This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

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