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    Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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    810 points bertman | 12 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.76s | source | bottom
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    xeonmc ◴[12 Nov 25 12:31 UTC] No.45899355[source]▶
    In ten years time YouTube will be entirely inaccessible from the browser as the iPad kids generation are used to doomscrolling the tablet app and Google feels confident enough to cut off the aging demographic.
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    1. andy_ppp ◴[12 Nov 25 12:35 UTC] No.45899394[source]▶
    The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone.

    Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...

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    2. neuroelectron ◴[12 Nov 25 12:38 UTC] No.45899415[source]▶
    Google is having a hard time conforming to their own javascript standards.
    3. RGamma ◴[12 Nov 25 12:38 UTC] No.45899417[source]▶
    Do you also get looping search results? I've also had it happen to the simple "videos" tab of a channel.
    4. ACCount37 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:54 UTC] No.45899557[source]▶
    And the YouTube web interface is full of issues too. For example, livestreams had transient memory leaks for months already, thought to be related to their chat implementation.

    In the meanwhile, YouTube spends its effort on measures against yt-dlp, which don't actually stop yt-dlp.

    What the fuck is wrong with Google corporate as of late.

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    5. sussmannbaka ◴[12 Nov 25 13:14 UTC] No.45899737[source]▶
    I can only navigate to a video by long-pressing, copying the URL and pasting it into the URL bar, otherwise I get a meaningless "something went wrong" type error message. Mobile Safari, no content blockers, not logged into a Google account. After almost two decades of making the website worse they finally succeeded in breaking "clicking a video". I wonder what the hotshots at Alphabet manage to break next :o)
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    6. Barbing ◴[12 Nov 25 13:26 UTC] No.45899855[source]▶
    Works dandily here.

    Suspicion: they’ve fingerprinted me hard and know I have premium but like to watch occasionally from Safari private (with content blockers) and don’t hassle me.

    Mainly suspect this given lack of anti-adblocking symptoms.

    7. mring33621 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:40 UTC] No.45900027[source]▶
    dumb middle management driven by dumb metrics

    a very old story...

    8. goku12 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:48 UTC] No.45900125[source]▶
    > Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...

    I don't believe that that's a bug. The disappearance depends a lot on the topic of those comments. It's very much deliberate censorship.

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    9. kllrnohj ◴[12 Nov 25 13:50 UTC] No.45900152[source]▶
    > It's very much deliberate censorship.

    Also known as "moderation"

    10. hbbio ◴[12 Nov 25 14:13 UTC] No.45900437[source]▶
    > livestreams had transient memory leaks for months already

    maybe it's vibe coded nowadays

    11. dylan604 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:37 UTC] No.45900759[source]▶
    This was happening to me browsing in FF with uBO. It would work as soon as I disabled uBO. I realized uBO needed an update, and it went back to working with uBO active after the update. For a couple of hours I was ready to never use YT again if it meant suffering their obnoxious interruptions with ads.
    12. Synaesthesia ◴[12 Nov 25 15:29 UTC] No.45901387[source]▶
    I only use the web app on my phone (via Firefox). It works well enough and I can play videos in the background and block ads.