I highly recommend anybody who cares about content on Youtube to download the videos you like and maintain local copies. Material is being deleted or hidden faster than ever and Youtube is only going to get more user-hostile over time.
Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
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Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, you go away unless you're another organization that proposes to mirror all of YouTube and eat its lunch. Google can't only think about humans, it's got to also think about competing organizations. That complicates things.
that's their problem to deal with. why is everyone here going all 'think of the poor corporations'
By the same logic, fare evasion is "metro company's problem to deal with".
It technically is, but if someone makes a programmer's salary and still jumps over turnstiles, I consider it a big red flag over their personality.
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#193Some videos offer multiple audio channels for different languages? Why have I never come across such videos before / missed somehow?
It was launched earlier this year. They say that "thousands" of Channels have access to the feature but who knows when the feature will be available to all channels.
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/multi-language-audio-mr...
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#194On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube? This really has puzzled me. I downloaded a few favourites and watch them on VLC or Infuse on my AppleTV. In the YouTube app I can use the "nerd stats" to confirm I am viewing the exact same video/audio streams... ... it could be my imagination but it seems like YouTube does a really subtle kind of filter that makes the "block…
> On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube?
I'm not [ADVERTISEMENT] sure, because my YouTube viewing [ADVERTISEMENT] experience nowadays is so [ADVERTISEMENT] [ADVERTISEMENT] frequently interrupted with ads that it [ADVERTISEMENT] breaks my focus. #pleaselikeandsubscribeandclickonthenotificationbell
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#195On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube? This really has puzzled me. I downloaded a few favourites and watch them on VLC or Infuse on my AppleTV. In the YouTube app I can use the "nerd stats" to confirm I am viewing the exact same video/audio streams... ... it could be my imagination but it seems like YouTube does a really subtle kind of filter that makes the "block…
> On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube? I'm not [ADVERTISEMENT] sure, because my YouTube viewing [ADVERTISEMENT] experience nowadays is so [ADVERTISEMENT] [ADVERTISEMENT] frequently interrupted with ads that it [ADVERTISEMENT] breaks my focus. #pleaselikeandsubscribeandclickonthenotificationbell
Get sponsor block and ad block extensions or a client with it built in and never think about this again
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, the broader concept of how to dissect the behaviour to figure out the api endpoints called, what was sent to them, what was returned, etc.
MITM proxy, ZAP, fiddler, and Burp suite are some tools to start with, and wireshark/postman just in case you needed it. Rest is just your knowledge in JavaScript mostly.
I don't think these tools are particularly suitable for reverse engineering websites, it's much easier to use devtools and userscripts
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#197On a sidenote am I imagining things or do videos actually look a tiny bit better in YouTube? This really has puzzled me. I downloaded a few favourites and watch them on VLC or Infuse on my AppleTV. In the YouTube app I can use the "nerd stats" to confirm I am viewing the exact same video/audio streams... ... it could be my imagination but it seems like YouTube does a really subtle kind of filter that makes the "block…
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're wrong, it very much does work for debugger
I believe the reason you and the person you're replying to disagree, is that it works for existing debugger statements, but seemingly doesn't work for debugger statements injected after you toggle the flag . The "disable breakpoints" button is seemingly performing a one-time imperative action on toggle (maybe "find all the breakpoints + debugger statements in existing loaded code, and patch/unpatch them") rather than…
I love this exchange. It’s so symbolic of how discussion and disagreement in general works
Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
The software version of widevine would be so thoroughly broken in a very short time that it would be bypassed by any one-click downloader addon. Nothing would change for users and YouTube would have the overhead for widevine. Using the hardware based version could cause a lot of problems with unsupported devices.
As another commentor pointed out, Widevine is already in use on many streaming sites. Where are the one-click downloader addons for those? If they exist, I have not been able to find them. (My use case is not so much in downloading a video, I just want to be able to my Amazon Prime videos on my Linux computer at a better resolution than 720p.)
Not exactly one click but there are Python scripts where you basically put in your credentials and the TV show ID:
https://github.com/search?q=widevine&type=repositories&s=upd...
I used results from this Github search page (especially pywidevine) a while back to make a Hulu downloader in Go which I eventually had to remove: https://github.com/chris124567/hulu
I wasn't really a part of this scene but there appears to be some sort of weird competition among people involved in writing this kind of software so occasionally device keys would leak when they tried to get at each other which was great for me because it meant I didn't have to extract keys from a phone or NVIDIA shield or anything annoying like that.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ad infinitum? AI controlled adblocker is the end game!
Sponsorblock is almost this... But it uses real human labour to replace the AI, and works really well.
Sponsorblock is absurdly wonderful, but needs an option to exclude certain channels. I want to watch Internet Historian's ads.