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There are boxes you plug to your CarPlay enabled car that run Android. Run Google Maps on that and you're golden. No need to carry/connect your phone to the car anymore
I don't think you mean a wired-to-wireless dongle, which is all my searches turn up. Can you give me an example of such a device?
It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag. For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU. However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 htt…
Many performance problems on YouTube are because they now force everyone to use the latest heavy codecs, even when your hardware does not have acceleration for it. I have a laptop that is plenty powerful for everything else and plays 4K h264 no problem. 720p on YouTube on the other hand turns it into a hot slate after a minute and grinds everything to a halt. There are browser extensions like h264ify that block newer…
The writing is on the wall for easy ripping. If there's any YT content you expect you'll want to preserve for a long time, I suggest spinning up https://www.tubearchivist.com/ or something similar and archiving it now while you still can.
They already had the proper-DRM tech for youtube movies for years, why didn't they already turn that on for all content?
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They already had the proper-DRM tech for youtube movies for years, why didn't they already turn that on for all content?
It's not really a matter of just turning it on when it comes to the kind of scale that YouTube has on their catalogue. It's practically impossible to retranscode the whole catalogue, so you're more or less stuck with only doing it for newly ingested content, and even there the tradeoffs are quite large when it comes to actually having DRM. I think we can safely assume that the only content under DRM at YouTube today…
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Yeah we had to roll through a bunch of proxy servers on top of all the other tricks you mentioned to reliably download at a decent pace
What are your thoughts on the load scrapers are putting on website operators?
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I think you only need something like `jsdom` to have the core API available. The DOM itself is just a tree structure with special nodes. Most APIs are optional and you can provide stubs if you're targeting a specific websites. It's not POSIX level.
I would like to know more about this. I had some web scrapers in Perl but they no longer work. :(
The length Youtube have gone to make it impossible to download videos. At the same time, Tiktok allows anyone to download a video with just right click
Nah, the uploader can turn that off if they want, which they tend to do on any popular video. I've resorted to screen recording, but even that is blockable with the (bullshit, shouldn't exist). "can't screenshot this due to security" API that exists on mobile operating systems now
Once upon a time (around 2000) they tried to fix this by making cameras illegal except for licensed photographers.
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The problem with bulk storage is that it will be abused at large scale. CSAM peddlers, intellectual property violators, unconsensual sexual material ("revenge porn"), malware authors looking for places to exfiltrate stolen data, propagandists and terrorists, the list of abusers is as long as it is dire. And for some of these abuser classes, the risk for any storage service is high. Various jurisdictions require extre…
Maybe that’s true, but YouTube is just absolutely miserable to use in every way. There’s got to be better options.
Youtube can get away with its shit service and utter lack of sensible moderation simply by being under Google's roof and the effort required to start up a competitor.
Just a few weeks/months ago, gogol search was blocked to noscript/basic (x)html browsers (I have witness gogol agenda about this unfold over the last few years).
Will use yt-dlp(zero whatng) until it breaks for good I guess.
The US administration failed to regulate the market domination of youtube with enforced simple and stable in time technical standards (what Big Tech hates). I don't blame them, since those nasty guys are smart border-line crime lords (and for sure serial offenders in EU).
Is there any other ways, non Big Tech ways, to access Sabine H. content? Or should I said good bye right now?
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Dailymotion, Vimeo etc. No ads, no bs it feels like freedom again. And if they change others will replace them.
And how do you watch content on dailymotion and vimeo when the content creators only post them on YouTube?