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

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798 points bertman | 3 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. 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.

3. 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.