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This entire thread it almost entirely proof that HN is now reddit. No facts, no consideration, just accusation and crowd think > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. none of that here > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. not followed here > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpret…
Reminds me of how Bing search for Google takes people to a page meant to resemble Google.com. Can't trust huge companies. But as others have pointed out, it's probably a coincidence in this case. But who knows.
uvx yt-dlp
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…
The heuristics powering this, as well as the Windows Defender whitelisting, are terrible. My understanding is that a specific binary needs to become popular for it to stop being flagged. This creates a chicken and egg problem. Users are not incentivized to use the program with the warning. But removing the warning requires many people to ignore the warning. This is a big problem for anyone writing Windows software. A…
The heuristics powering this, as well as the Windows Defender whitelisting, are terrible. My understanding is that a specific binary needs to become popular for it to stop being flagged. This creates a chicken and egg problem. Users are not incentivized to use the program with the warning. But removing the warning requires many people to ignore the warning. This is a big problem for anyone writing Windows software. A…
This is also what I call bullshit security. These mechanisms are designed to chain developers to infrastructure of the OS provider. Apple does the same shit for that matter.
Because AFAIK SmartScreen only applies to software downloaded outside the Microsoft Store.
Come to think of it, I suppose it does incentivize distribution through the Store, so you make a good point.
I can reproduce when downloading https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2026.03.1... . But it did provide a line of explanation: Dangerous download blocked yt-dlp_win_x86.zip is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous. [Discard] [Keep]