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319 points modmodmod | 3 comments | 15 Mar 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.629s | 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. Dylan16807 ◴[16 Mar 25 04:36 UTC] No.43376958[source]▶
> prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it

This is how you describe a glorified VCR?

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2. Gigachad ◴[16 Mar 25 20:41 UTC] No.43382100[source]▶
What is describing is a platform that reimplements the YouTube frontend with the primary purpose being not having ads without paying.
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3. Dylan16807 ◴[16 Mar 25 23:25 UTC] No.43383587[source]▶
It does a bunch of useful things and that's one of them.

Also the videos are free either way. It's true that people are avoiding paying for an ad removing feature, but installing your own software to get features is pretty reasonable.

And ad removal is well established as a feature people use and it being fine that they do so.