This is going to break yt-dlp.
YouTube won't fight it for that reason. It's regulatory capture.
YouTube won't fight it for that reason. It's regulatory capture.
If YouTube really did want to stop yt-dlp, they'd encrypt all the videos with Widevine.
It probably breaks anonymous access to videos (when not signed in to a Google account). Unless yt-dlp provide shared cookies that its thousands of users can use there will still be account level tracking of video access.