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

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Post by SchemaLoad »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #454
icelancer wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube premium "download" is also just completely fake. Downloaded where? What file can I copy?

Files? What era do you hail from? Prehistory? There are no files anymore. I mean, there technically are, but copyright industry doesn't want you to look at them without authorization, security people don't want you to look at them at all , and UX experts think it's a bad idea for you to even know such thing as "files" exists. Share and enjoy. Like and subscribe. The world is just apps all the way down.

Ironically a very large chunk of youtube creators themselves need the ability to download real files so they can use segments in their own videos.

TikTok is very strange in that it actually does let you download real files.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

the_af wrote: post #314
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #311

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It is enabled by default. One creator of English language content had their video misclassified as Spanish and people were getting a machine English dub on an English video. Support to fix it appears to be a nightmare.

Wait, do you mean it's enabled by default but the author can disable it? If not, I wonder why I can still watch most videos in their original language (even though I'm in a Spanish-speaking country), and I only encountered this once so far.

It's being gradually rolled out to channels. Will likely hit larger ones earlier, or following some other metric youtube is following.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

XnoiVeX wrote: post #184
est wrote: post #16

I really appreciate the engineering effort went into this "JavaScript interpreter" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/yt_dlp/jsin...

It's a subset of Javascript. HN discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32794081

This description reminds me of program language wars excerpt I saw somewhere years ago about how c was obviously superior to Pascal, because with enough preprocessor macros you can compile any Pascal program in c. Followed by some hideous and humorous examples.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

beala wrote: post #64
piyuv wrote: post #9

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.…

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…

This is exactly why Google is clamping down on running your own choice of apps on Android, as well as pushing things like remote attestation on both phones and browsers.

It's time to milk the entire userbase for every cent they can get out of them by any means necessary. The future is bleak.

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

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Post by meeb »

ticoombs wrote: post #450
ddtaylor wrote: post #301

When I first got with my wife I seemed a bit crazier than I am because I am a media hoarder for 30+ years. I don't have any VHS, DVDs, etc. laying around because I only keep digital copies, but I have pretty decent archives. Nothing important really, just normal stuff and some rare or obscure stuff that disappears over time. My wife was interested in the idea that I was running "Netfix from home" and enjoyed the lack…

Checkout https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

Thanks for the mention :)

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #490
bigyabai wrote: post #348

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NewPipe is incredible. If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a Linux phone.

What do you mean by signing? Application signing on android is done by the developer, with their own key. Or by fdroid, in the case of apps built by fdroid in the default repository.

Things have changed.

Google is doing what Apple does and implementing Gatekeeper-like signature checks to ensure only apps by Google-approved developers can run on Android.

Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it.

We're at a point where we need permission from trillion dollar companies to run the apps we want on the hardware we own.

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

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Post by Awesomedonut »

godelski wrote: post #483
Awesomedonut wrote: post #476

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I'm a loyal Brave user and I feel my loyalties being swayed right now...

I really do have a lot of respect for Brave and what they're trying to do, don't get me wrong. I think they are trying to address a meaningful problem and I do not think their solution is ill-conceived. I want to be clear about that. But I do think it is a far bigger problem that we let a single actor have so much control over the fundamental structure of the internet. The problem isn't Brave so much as it is Chromiu…

Thanks for the detailed response! I got lots of food for thought

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

The second to last comment in the linked thread is an FAQ with some good explanation of their reasoning. I suggest anyone who hasn't read it yet to do so as it answers a lot of questions I've seen in this thread.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3...

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

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Post by jrm4 »

jasode wrote: post #99
ACCount37 wrote: post #49

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If you ever wondered why the likes of Google and Cloudflare want to restrict the web to a few signed, integrity-checked browser implementations? Now you know.

>If you ever wondered why the likes of Google and Cloudflare want to restrict the web I disagree with the framing of "us vs them". It's actually "us vs us". It's not just us plebians vs FAANG giants. The small-time independent publishers and creators also want to restrict the web because they don't want their content "stolen". They want to interact with real humans instead of bots. The following are manifestations of…

Then some of those small people are wrong too.

I wish we could all just stop fighting the truth of the tech -- it costs ZERO to make copies of things, and adjust accordingly.

Patreon (and keep it real, OnlyFans) are roughly the only viable long term models.

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