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Can they enforce DRM on the videos through EME?
Maybe, depends on the amount of effort they want to put into it. Right now, if I recall, they're just dumping the uploaded content into an S3 bucket and serving it back out (reddit-uploaded-media.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com).
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Agreed! I downloaded the app, saw 10 minutes of teenage girls dancing, and deleted it. My friend talked me into giving it another chance. After a few hours, it was consistently delivering videos that were exactly my taste. I've never had such a good discovery experience.
How long does it take? I got sick of seeing two kinds of videos: 1. Teenagers dancing to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs. 2. Teenagers performing physical feats to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs.
- watching the video completely
- liking
- commenting
- sharing
increase your account's affinity to the tags associated with that video. If you like multiple videos with the same tag, you'll start seeing many videos with that tag. So, I think searching for a few tags about topics you're interested in and liking a few videos will prime the algorithm enough to make suggestions start being relevant.
This can also be annoying - I must have liked a few vids about dnd, and now i get more dnd suggestions than I want.
Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…
Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fill your chat app with friends who consistently linked you to neat stuff. Now, no more. "Check out this link" is not an enticing offer, it's assigning homework. I don't know if it's because neat stuff is no lo…
If you found it on a surface-level subreddit, a major Instagram account, a major news site, or a big podcast chances are decent that the content in question has already been seen by a fair number of people, and to them, seeing it again has no additional value.
I see this play out hundreds of times in real life where the conversations start with "Did you see...? and "I was listening to a podcast about..."
Youtube-dl works well for reddit video, just use it by giving the reddit comment link as YDL argument. It's impossible to detect YDL because it identifies itself as a browser. Meanwhile, just try to advocate for GFYcat instead.
It’s certainly not “impossible”. They could put some side channel communication in their player that YouTube-dl doesn’t implement. I can think of a bunch of ways you could do it.
The goal of reddit being to limit it, although I'm not sure they can really make accurate enough stats to know how many people download videos with YDL.
The save vid bot is much more visible, which is the reason they reacted I guess.
Friendly reminder that old.reddit.com is still up. I deleted the app this morning. Maybe old.reddit.com will be a nicotine patch.
Unless you click on a Reddit link while inside of old.reddit.com; it will then take you to that page, but show you the default 'modern' theme. Same content, just 10x slower.
Reddit hosted videos have been such a joke lately. They are just ripped from YouTube and TikTok, almost always with out the creators permission.
I almost always go to the comments to find a mirror instead of trying to load a 30s clip. I've got brand new hardware and a gig connection...It shouldn't take >30s to load a <30s clip!
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I think its because browsers started hiding links, and apps started replacing websites. You have a generation of people that grew up without links, and many many more late adopters that didn't willingly use the internet until the 2010s. I had to help a friend send me a link to something a few days ago, he had no idea what I was talking about. He didn't know how to copy/paste on his iPhone, and didn't realize you coul…
> my phone doesn't have a QR reader. It is possible it does. The default photo app on Android is a QR code reader, at least on Google Pixel phones. I open the photo app and then point it at the QR code. After a moment or two text appears which allows me to open the QR code link. I only realized this in the last month or two...
Update: Reddit employees are denying that Reddit sent any such notice. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ojccls/reddit_o...
I suspected it was too evil for Reddit. Killing off secret santa was lame, but threatening to sue your users is a different level. Plus, there would be no reason to threaten a lawsuit when they could just ban the account. So, gaming this out, I don't think the person that ran SaveVideo was evil either. Assuming good faith, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is that someone fabricated a cease and desist no…
https://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsett...
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Unless you click on a Reddit link while inside of old.reddit.com; it will then take you to that page, but show you the default 'modern' theme. Same content, just 10x slower.
I use browser extension to force old reddit