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Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#21

Chrome for work, Safari or Arc for everything else. I envy you if your use of yt-dlp is work related.

you almost got it rigth. safari and arc are as bad as chrome. arc is just stable-chrome (it will have the same nonsense with a custom ui next release) firefox sadly is still what you should use.

I started giving a try to Zen (based on firefox) a few days ago. I like it especially while heavily relying on a tiling window manager.

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#22
post #6

Which link exactly did you try to use? Or what specific version on the Github releases page? I checked both the latest windows and macos versions against Google Safe Browsing and all were fine.

I can't reproduce this either, OP is light on details.

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you almost got it rigth. safari and arc are as bad as chrome. arc is just stable-chrome (it will have the same nonsense with a custom ui next release) firefox sadly is still what you should use.

I started giving a try to Zen (based on firefox) a few days ago. I like it especially while heavily relying on a tiling window manager.

I daily drove Zen for months. The design and implementation are overall fantastic. Unfortunately it still has chronic performance issues, gobbling up CPU randomly - and they don't seem to be too focused on despite it being a commonly reported issue.

I don't want to burn out my battery quicker than usual, so I was forced to switch off. I'm currently trying Orion instead and have been loving it - aside from several poorly implemented websites just not working on it. And the Cloudflare false positives, but that's as much or more an issue on Zen.

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#25

Chrome for work, Safari or Arc for everything else. I envy you if your use of yt-dlp is work related.

you almost got it rigth. safari and arc are as bad as chrome. arc is just stable-chrome (it will have the same nonsense with a custom ui next release) firefox sadly is still what you should use.

Why is Safari as bad as Chrome?

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#28
post #2

So, Google's browser says downloading a tool to download files from Google's servers is "Suspicious"? Not surprising.

By the same standard, Chrome itself is "a tool to download files from Google's servers." Chrome doesn't only download from Google's servers, but the same thing applies to yt-dlp. I'm equally not "surprised" by their bad behavior, but that shouldn't stop us from condemning Google for unethically misleading people and engaging in browser monopoly abuse. --- EDIT: holding up (hilariously) RIAA lawyers as ethical role mo…

Actually that is what they want you to believe. Behind the scenes, secretly Chrome is mostly "a tool to upload files to Google's servers" but because it does not require any actions from the user to do that, many people miss that part.

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#29

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You are not under attack. It’s just someone disagreeing with you. Please keep things civil.

Where is the incivility? If anything it's coming from those who project their simplistic ideas of others unto the complexity of others' persons to pigeonhole them into their own idiosyncratic mental categories.

Re: Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

#30
It's funny such a big corporations can't let such a small tool live.

Google is such an evil company, it is not even provided anything great anymore.

Anti-gravity paid plans suck, GCP is billing heavy. Today google sucks at most things

Their Android playstore hardly updates statistics once a day, so much for such a big data company with unlimited sources lol

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