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Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.
There is no way to pay google to get features like these or like what yt-dlp offers. If there was I would have gladly paid.
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
I don't think they can ever kill it. Something else will rise. There is too much demand for it.
Where there is enough demand, people will find a way.
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Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.
> prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it This is how you describe a glorified VCR?
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What? Literally all those services have piracy problems, and pretty much any time piracy drops it's because of more effective DRM, not service.
Counterexample: steam They seem to be the only ones who get how piracy can be fought. And its no secret either, gabe newell has that "piracy is a service issue" quote for anyone to read. Its just that these companies dont want to consider not squeezing the life out of their users for shareholder benefit
Steam does do a great job of making stuff accessible and convenient. But plenty of people would still pirate over paying $90 for the new game if it wasn’t so hard.
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Agreed. Youtube downloaders are essential for backup purposes and for getting clips to put in your own videos as fair use. But people turning them in to fully user facing ad free frontends are driving the crackdown on the tools so we will end up with no way at all to download videos.. Would be nice if Youtube just let premium users download the actual video files. What I find interesting is how so many of the Chinese…
> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead. YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads. I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl…
It depends on the jurisdiction actually. In mine (France) and a few others, the right to save material is granted to every citizen no matter the license of the said material as long as the copy is made for private use only (it's called «droit à la copie privée» which translates to “right to private copy”).
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Why disable youtube history? I have it enabled, and my subscription page works fine.
Disabling YouTube history makes two additional changes: no more "algorithmically curated" videos in your YouTube homepage and no more YouTube Shorts rabbithole.
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I mean, the root of the problem is that there is essentially only one "Youtube" that isn't a public service. Not sure if you make this better by leaning into it or not.
Why should it be a public service?
- High fixed cost
- Low or zero marginal cost
and
- very important to a lot of people
fits the bill for a public service?
I wish we would all just stop doing this. At least fora bit.
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> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead. YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads. I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl…
> YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. It depends on the jurisdiction actually. In mine (France) and a few others, the right to save material is granted to every citizen no matter the license of the said material as long as the copy is made for private use only (it's called «droit à la copie privée» which translates to “right to private c…
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strategic-policy-sector/en/...
(What a classic Canadian government URL that is.)
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> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead. YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads. I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl…
> YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. It depends on the jurisdiction actually. In mine (France) and a few others, the right to save material is granted to every citizen no matter the license of the said material as long as the copy is made for private use only (it's called «droit à la copie privée» which translates to “right to private c…
In theory YouTube could geo lock these features if made to implement it.