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319 points modmodmod | 1 comments | 15 Mar 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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jjulius ◴[15 Mar 25 21:21 UTC] No.43375226[source]▶
I'd say it's less people's fault and more Google's for driving people to want something like it.
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Gigachad ◴[15 Mar 25 21:37 UTC] No.43375322[source]▶
Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.
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1. jjulius ◴[15 Mar 25 23:50 UTC] No.43375971[source]▶
I think the truly uninteresting insight is the flippant assertion that people "just want to get stuff for free", rather than the numerous other reasons someone might want a different frontend, or to use yt-dlp.

Edit: Take me, for instance. I can tolerate ads, much as I hate them - waiting 15 seconds and hitting "skip" twice isn't going to kill me. But good christ do I not like YT's UI/UX.