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Sponsorblock can skip sponsors, self-promos, subscribe reminders, intro animation, and end credits. (crowd-sources the timestamps) https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Alas not really watching a video on a browser.
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They were DMCAed, they got bad press out of it, they eventually stood up for the developer in exchange for a token concession (deleting test data that referred to copyrighted music and was named in the complaint): https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo... , and reversed the takedown unilaterally (which would mean the claimant could take github/microsoft to court if they felt like it). Whether it…
Lawyer here. Forest/Trees, people. It may not ever come to "litigation," there are so many other ways to make this happen. I suppose I should be a bit clearer. When Microsoft and the big media people get together to try to make it go away, what will be the the response?
haven't paid attention to this since all the drama last year but again - what are all of you using youtube-dl for? Archiving your channel subs?
Literally everything. 1. I download whole channels if there's a series I want to watch. 2. I download music, since youtube is a really quite nice music library. 3. I download long videos before I watch it, because it's just more pleasant to rewind the thing when it's already on your SSD. Also, it won't freeze spoiling a beautiful scene because of some stupid WiFi problem. 4. Even if I don't download it before watchin…
We maintain a central list [1] of content that various members have archived, such that when content is removed from YouTube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content.
It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and occasionally direct efforts to preserve specific content.
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Not that I personally care if individuals violate terms of service, but using that in a sales pitch seems akin to advertising for piracy services. Abiding by the terms of the agreement which you enter into with the company providing the service is a requirement to continue service and/or avoid liability, irrespective of whether it includes completely idiotic and archaic business practices and irrespective of whether…
What is the right way to overturn stupidity then?
Not paying for a service whose terms you disagree with in areas you disagree. Using alternative services that do not have those terms. Demonstrating against the business practice. Petitioning for law that renders the terms illegal or invalid. Finding way to challenge the parasitic middlemen that are to blame. And so forth.
For me, something like this is exactly where Deno would shine. I could just run `deno run --allow-net=YouTube.com --allow-write=.` and not worry about that it could do anything dangerous. Probably the url list would be a bit more complicated, but I could also just blanket allow net without worrying, since allow-read isn't needed.
While it's great that Deno is sandboxing code, but I feel like this should be a part of the OS and not the language.
Admittedly, that question is made in bad faith -- I know what you mean, even if what you mean isn't necessarily "sandboxing": permissions!
Android and iOS do it right. One OS-level source of truth that manages application-level permissions for the entire machine. When you frame it that way, it becomes clear that Deno asking for rights on a per-run basis is indeed silly, but only in the context of the user experience... not necessarily the core software design.
> NEW FEATURES > Cookies from browser: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE] Very nice. Having to manually copy cookies to get past login walls is annoying.
As much as I like this feature, it is scary on the other side how easy it is to essentially steal cookies - what yt-dlp can, so can malware. Why don't OSes have some sort of system-wide secret store linked to an user's account (like the macOS Keychain) and an application's code-signing certificate? That would at least prevent easy file-dump attacks, moving the barrier to "execute something in the browser process cont…
And have a look at AppArmor.
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> Are the sponsor parts really so bad? To me not only is it easy to skip, I want indie people to make enough money to produce high quality content; otherwise media is just what a few biggies want to fund. In my experience, it's the same with ads everywhere else. It (usually) starts out not being overly obnoxious, with just a "this video is sponsored by [garbage tier mobile game/earphones/vpn/whatever] more about them…
Map Men do great sponsor parts, actually entertaining to watch. I find the same with christmas adverts each year - I don’t do tv, but go out of my way to watch the adverts and get in the festive mood come December.
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I enjoy some of his podcasts. Yeah some are a waste of time but many have been spectacular.
To be fair I would agree with you that some of his guests are great (e.g. Quentin Tarantino) and I do enjoy the long-form interviewing. But Rogan himself, to me, gives off bad vibes. Not really sincere or actually interested in his guests more than he is interested in himself. I find he'll say he's interested and come back with some show of how cultured and learned he is by bringing some obscure minutiae. I think he…
Joe does look pretty hilarious these days. If you look at pictures of him younger vs now he went from decent looking italian showman to some alien humanoid. Becoming a muscleman who works out for hours, plus tries crazy things like his diet, pill regimen, and sitting in a sauna/ice bath for an hour daily is something he wants to do and it is his prerogative.
The only thing he really promotes heavily is for people to lose weight and stop eating junk food. Yeah he does have ads for Gatorade clone drinks but still I don't think he is really implying people should adopt his whole routine. It is easy to ignore and focus on the podcast content.
If you don't mind which lifestyle choices are you referring to?
>Not really sincere or actually interested in his guests more than he is interested in himself. I find he'll say he's interested and come back with some show of how cultured and learned he is by bringing some obscure minutiae.
There have been a lot of podcasts where he has no freakin clue how to add to the conversation so he tries to contribute topic he does know about (comedy, MMA, working out) but for the most part he sits and listens. For me if the guest is not interesting or acting in bad faith, I shut it off and move on with the understanding that I will rarely miss any insight from Joe himself. If he is friends with the person then I see a totally different vibe. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, just stating my observations.
At the end of the day he has repeatedly said that the podcast is just supposed to be two people sitting around "shooting the shit". In fact I only started listening in mid 2020 just because of some guest that intrigued me. I didn't even know who Joe Rogan was before that.
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I don't believe the view counter gets incremented when using any unofficial front-end/downloader.
It does, it shows up as a "Other YouTube features" for the source. Though, YouTube seems to do some aggressive deduping here, if I download from 5 different IPs, excluding the IP I'm logged into YouTube's services, I see 5 views. If I download 50 times from one IP, I see one view.
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Android? Youtube vanced offers this built-in.
Never heard of YouTube Vanced. I see it's not open source. The feature list is interesting, but it doesn't say anything about tracking/telemetry. Does the app track you (and how much), independently of YouTube tracking? I'm currently happy with NewPipe - which is essentially a youtube-dl GUI, and has to be updated just as often, which is damn annoying because FDroid is still completely broken UX-wise - but I have les…