Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
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#2previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#3In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#4In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone.
Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#5In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone. Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...
Google is having a hard time conforming to their own javascript standards.
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#6In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone. Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...
Do you also get looping search results? I've also had it happen to the simple "videos" tab of a channel.
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#7In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
Pffft, and good riddance, comrade! Just think about native application and native performance, great native animations and native experience (and native ads, of course)! We won't have this god-awful Web (that propelled modern tech world in the first place) anymore, we can finally have personal vendetta against awful JS and DOM. No more interoperability, no more leverage against corpos, just glorious proprietary enclaves where local tyrant can do anything they want!
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#8In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
It's not YouTube though, but downloader :)
"yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc."
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#9In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
It's not YouTube though, but downloader :) "yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc."
I guess the point was that yt-dlp is only possible, because of the mandatory protocols you need in the browser. Moving to native app makes it much easier to prevent downloading and denying access to the unencrypted content.
Re: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
#10In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
It's not YouTube though, but downloader :) "yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc."
Doesn't matter, yt-dlp looks like a browser to youtube. They can put authorization/encryption in an app that can't be done in a webpage. By killing browsers they gain control.