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tracerbulletx ◴[15 Mar 25 20:30 UTC] No.43374959[source]▶
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
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zozbot234 ◴[15 Mar 25 21:27 UTC] No.43375269[source]▶
If they shut down yt-dlp for good, a lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. A tool like yt-dlp is very much required if you want to engage professionally with that kind of community. Even something as trivial as making a well-produced "video reaction" relies on it.

Yes, YT has good monetization, but it still pays peanuts to the average creator. So the competitive threat is very real - superstars alone wouldn't be enough to make for a really compelling platform.

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1. kattagarian ◴[15 Mar 25 23:06 UTC] No.43375749[source]▶
that's wishful thinking. There is basically no relevant competitor to youtube, Google is extremely comfortable in doing whatever they want with it.