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Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber. Last weekend, I wanted to download something so I can watch it on my way in the train. The app got stuck at “waiting for download..” on my iPad. Same on iPhone. Restart did not work. I gave up after an hour (30 mins hands on trying stuff, 30 mins waiting for it to fix itself). Downloaded the video using yt-dlp, transferred it to my USB c flash drive, and watched it from that.…

Why not use Brave browser and their playlist feature for offline downloads?

> Why not use Brave

Reddit has the answer for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_b...

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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What evidence is there that Deno's "security and isolation" works? It's their application, yt-dlp can use whatever it wants. But they made their choices for stylistic/aesthetic reasons.

What evidence is telling the opposite? Scripts use V8 isolation, identical to Chrome. What comes to rest, we can only trust or review by ourself, but it is certainly better than nothing in this context.

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Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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The main reason for doing video through JS in the first place, other than obfuscation, is variable bitrate support. Oddly enough some TVs will support variable bitrate HLS directly, and I believe Apple devices, but not regular browsers. See https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/ > unless you have something to sell Video hosting and its moderation is not cheap, sadly. Which is why we don't see many competitors.

And by "not many" you really mean zero competitors. (before you ask: Vimeo is getting sold to an enshitification company)

Those "zero" include: Rumble, Odysee, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook watch... etc.

And a decent list here: https://ideaexplainers.com/video-sites-like-youtube/

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download feature never seems to work on the first try. I finally got so fed up, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 off ebay for $50 and flashed it with LineageOS. I can now load whatever media I want onto the 1 TB sdcard I've installed in it. The 5 year old hardware plays v…

I use yt-dlp inside of a-shell on iOS, then play files using VLC.

Doesn’t solve VLCs suckiness on iOS. No PiP support when it’s been in iOS for years now…

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end as everything requires a full browser running thousands of lines of obfuscated js code now. So instead of a website giving me that 1kb json that could be cached now I start a full browser stack and transmit 10 megabytes through 100 requests, messing up your analytics and security profile and everyone's a loser. Yay.

Those days are not coming to an end: * PeerTube and similar platforms for video streaming of freely-distributable content; * BitTorrent-based mechanisms for sharing large files (or similar protocols). Will this be inconvenient? At first, somewhat. But I am led to believe that in the second category one can already achieve a decent experience.

To how many content creators have you written to request them share their content on PeerTube or BitTorrent? How did they respond? How will they monetize?

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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When Nixon slammed the gold window shut so Congress could keep writing blank checks for Vietnam and the Great Society, it wasn't just some monetary technicality. It was the moment America broke its word to the world and broke something fundamental in us too. Suddenly money wasn't something you earned through sweat or innovation anymore. It became something politicians and bankers could conjure from thin air whenever…

Wow. That was eloquent, and coherent, and depressing. I'd be grateful for someone to counter with something less dismal. Good things are still happening in the world. A positive future remains possible -- but we have to be able to imagine it to bring it into being.

until people learn money, the concept, nothing will change. and that in turn will hardly happen while the bad guys own childhood (compulsory schooling).

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Accelerationism is a dead-end theory with major holes in its core. Or I should say, "their" core, because there's a million distant and mutually-incompatible varieties. Everyone likes to say "gosh, things are awful, it MUST end in collapse, and after the collapse everyone will see things MY way." They can't all be right. And yet, all of them with their varied ideas still think it'll be a good idea to actively push to…

Look at history, things improve and then things get worse, in cycles. During the "things get worse" phase, why not make it shorter?

Let's give it a shot.

The year is 2003. Svn and cvs are proving to be way too clunky and slow for booming open source development.

As an ethical accelerationist, you gain commit access to the repos for svn and cvs and make them slower and less reliable to accelerate progress toward better version control.

Lo and behold, you still have to wait until 2025 for git to be released. Because git wasn't written to replace svn or cvs-- it was written as the result of internal kernel politics wrt access to a closed-source source management program Bitkeeper. And since svn and cvs were already bad enough that kernel devs didn't choose them, you making them worse wouldn't have affected their choice.

Also, keep in mind that popularity of git was spurred by tools that converted from svn to git. So by making svn worse, you'd have made adoption of git harder by making it harder on open source devs to write reliable conversion tools.

To me, this philosophy looks worse than simply doing nothing at all. And this is in a specific domain where you could at least make a plausible, constrained argument for accelerationism. Your comment instead seems to apply to accelerationism applied to software in general-- there, the odds of you being right are so infinitesimal as to be fatuous.

In short, you'd do better playing the lottery because at least nothing bad happens to anyone else when you lose.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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as soon as they have a map app that works with car play i'm switching to linux phone.

GNOME Maps is good enough for me. I don't know what Carplay is and at this point I'd rather not ask.

Framework for using your cars infotainment system as your screen/input device. Android has something similar called Android Auto.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Yes, by spending money.

I agree, in some cases and depending on LLM endpoint, some money may need to be spent to enable ripping. But is it cheaper than paying Youtube/Google? That is the question.

sometimes, it's not about the cost. it's about who/where the money is being spent.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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When Nixon slammed the gold window shut so Congress could keep writing blank checks for Vietnam and the Great Society, it wasn't just some monetary technicality. It was the moment America broke its word to the world and broke something fundamental in us too. Suddenly money wasn't something you earned through sweat or innovation anymore. It became something politicians and bankers could conjure from thin air whenever…

What does any of this have to do with yt-dlp?

Ostensibly the same forces that drove Nixon to move the dollar off of gold, are driving Google to destroy third party YouTube clients.
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