Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

  > I'm telling you that Firefox is going to be out of business soon

Do you not think everyone saying Firefox is going to be out of business soon plays a role in this?

Regardless, I think you've ignored the root of my argument. I'm not trying to be a Firefox fanboy here but it's not like there's many options. The playing field is Chrome, Firefox, Safari. So only one of these is not "big tech".

  > Metrics can be transmitted without revealing the user. This is well known.

This is not well known and I think you've kinda "told on yourself" here. It is fairly well known in the privacy community that it is difficult to transmit user data without accidentally revealing other information. Here's a rather famous example[0,1]. I'd encourage you to read it and think carefully about how deanonymization might be possible after just reading a description of the datasets they deanonymize.

  > You can't suggest anything. I am done with this conversation.

If you wish to disengage then that is your choice. I am really trying to engage with you faithfully here. I'm not even really attacking Brave here, as my critique is over the Chromium ecosystem. I think if you look at my points again you can see how they would dramatically shift if Brave were based off of Gecko or Webkit. Honestly, I would be encouraging Brave usage were it under those umbrella. Or even better, if it had its own engine! Because my point is about monopolization.

[0] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/Archie-Gers...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105

  > That's what they're directly or indirectly being graded on.

I think you'd agree that this should have never been the case. Engineering managers or project managers, sure. But engineers? That's just silly.

We need firewalls. One group's primary concern needs to be on the product. Another group's primary concern needs to be on keeping the business alive and profitable.

Too much of the former and you fail to prioritize the right work. Too much of the latter and you build vaporware. The downsides of biasing in one direction is certainly worse than the other...

  > my wife hates that I see this in everything, but - hidden inflation is a thing.

Lol, your wife might have a field day with mine...

I have a fundamental belief that there's far more complexity than we let on. That as we advance complexity only increases. What was once rounding errors end up becoming major roadblocks. It's the double edged nature of success: the more you improve the harder it is to improve. I truly will never understand how everyone (including niche experts) thinks things are so simple.

But my partner is doing her PhD in economics, so she also thinks about opportunity costs quite a lot but I think she (and a lot of her friends) were quite unaware of how a lot of stuff operates in tech[0].

Probably doesn't help that, as you know, I'm not great at brevity :/

[0] My favorite thing to at her department get togethers (alcohol is always involved) is to introduce them to open source software. Quite a number of them find it difficult to understand how much of the world is based on this type of work and how little money it makes. Not to mention the motivations behind it. The xz hack led to some interesting discussions...

ideas/assholes/everyone has one, etc

That's because youtube allows almost everything sfw to be hosted on their platform and without any limits.

I can imagine if they've added rate-limiting, e.g. 30GB per IP per week - that would've reduced amount of crap, literal white noise and spam/scam videos uploaded to Youtube in several magnitudes. Another strategy is, if a video doesn't get 1000 views after a week - it's deleted.

  > As a big tech programmer, it's almost never that simple...

I'll be fair and agree that I'm being a bit facetious here. But let's also admit that if you are unable to dedupe entries in a calendar with identical names then something is fundamentally broken.

I did purposefully limit to holiday calendars as an example because this very narrow scope vastly simplifies the problem, yet is a real world example you yourself can verify.

You're right that edge cases can add immense complexities but can you really think of a reason it should be difficult to dedupe an event with identical naming and identical time entries, especially with the strong hint that these are holidays? Let's even just limit ourselves to holidays that exclusively fall over full day periods (such as Labor Day).

Do you really think we cannot write a quick solution that will cover these cases? The cases that dominate the problem? A solution whose failure mode results in the existing issue (having dupes)? Am I really missing edge cases which require significantly more complex solutions that would interfere with the handling of these exceptionally common cases? Because honestly, this appears like a standard table union problem. With the current result my choices are having triplicate entries, which has major consequences to usability, or the disabling of several calendars, which fails to generalize the problem and also results in missing some minor holidays. Honestly, the problem is so bad I'd be grateful even if I had to manually approve all such dedupes...

If not, I'd really like to hear. Because it really means I've greatly mischaracterized the problem and I should not be using this example. Nor the example of a failure to FIND contacts with identical names, nicknames, phone numbers, birthdays, and differ only on an email address and note entry. Because I have really been under the strong impression that the latter is a simple database query where we should return any entry containing matches (failure mode being presenting the user with too many matches rather than a lack of matches. We can sort by number of duplicate fields and display matches in batches if necessary. A cumbersome solution is better than the current state of things...).

I'm serious in my request but if I have made a gross mischaracterization then I think you'd understand how silly this all looks. I really do want to know because this is just baffling to me.

If I truly am being an idiot, please, I encourage you to treat me like one. But don't make me take it on your word.