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I use YouTube on a daily basis. I haven't seen any of these problems.
It is likely you use Chrome or a browser that uses Blink for its engine and the OP uses a non-blink browser like Firefox. I use Firefox and I can cofirm since the last few months Youtube usability borders on usable
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One issue GP may be referring to is the bifurcation of video viewing tools and video editing tools. There are excellent video editing tools: on the desktop from paid ones like Premiere to free (as in beer) ones like DaVinci Resolve, not to mention mobile apps behind the TikTok culture. There are also excellent and built-in video players in every browser and every OS. But in the modern age viewing and editing a video…
I think that happens when the rift between producers and consumers require some learning to jump from one to the other, at least professionally. Some of the people who produce videos for a living require vastly different tools than someone who needs to trim the edges of a short home video clip, so the the UI and UX has to be different, otherwise these people won't be able to effectively do their job. For writing, eve…
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I use YouTube on a daily basis. I haven't seen any of these problems.
It is likely you use Chrome or a browser that uses Blink for its engine and the OP uses a non-blink browser like Firefox. I use Firefox and I can cofirm since the last few months Youtube usability borders on usable
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> For years it was a pain to deal with video because you had to navigate third party players (remember Real Player?), Flash plugins, and sketchy codec pack installs from adware infested download sites. How is this any worse than what YouTube does now? Real Player and flash never made you watch ads.
It seems you may be misremembering. From Wikipedia [1]: > Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing adware and spyware such as Comet Cursor. ... PC World magazine named RealPlayer (1999 Version) as number 2 in its 2006 list "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time", writing that RealPlayer "had a disturbing way of making itself a little too much at home on your PC--installing itself as the defaul…
Regardless, from what I remember it was never as annoying as being screamed at to buy a minivan.
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Popular self-hosted solution: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
You people always make everything more complicated than necessary. yt-dlp -o '%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s' --cookies-from-browser chrome https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL
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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yt-dlp-ejs looks like what you need?
No, don't need anything extra, `extra/yt-dlp` works perfectly fine and is enough. You'll get a warning if you run it without the flag: WARNING: [youtube] [jsc] Remote components challenge solver script (deno) and NPM package (deno) were skipped. These may be required to solve JS challenges. You can enable these downloads with --remote-components ejs:github (recommended) or --remote-components ejs:npm , respectively.…
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Firstly, ad watch time is not currency. Second once the paper's in my hands, I get to do what I want with it, and the expectations of the paper company has no bearing on it. If they don't want to give me the paper for free, they should stop, but they haven't yet. Their expectation to make a certain amount of revenue from ads doesn't obligate the consumer. If their business model isn't making them the profit they need…
> Second once the paper's in my hands, I get to do what I want with it, and the expectations of the paper company has no bearing on it. Absolutely! I run an adblocker as well! At the same time, you'd agree they have the right to refuse to serve you (access denied) or make you jump through hoops (solve a challenge etc)
I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site. I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.
Anything you see on the Internet can be gone in a moment. If something is important to you, you must save it to guarantee you want to see it again.
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> MS Media Player eventually fell behind the curve, but eventually we got VLC and things got great. And in-between those we had Media Player Classic together with the Combined Community Codec Pack, and once you had MPC + CCCP installed, you could finally view those glorious aXXo-branded 700MB files found on a random DC++ hub.
I'm still using the Media Player Classic Home Cinema to this day. https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc Never liked VLC, but that's just me.