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

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798 points bertman | 6 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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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crazygringo ◴[12 Nov 25 12:51 UTC] No.45899525[source]▶
This is obviously not plausible. They're never going to shut off browser access on people's laptops. Watching YT at work is a major thing.

I have to assume you're joking, but I honestly can't figure out what point you're even trying to make. Do it think it's surprising that an ad-supported site has anti-scraping/anti-downloading mechanisms? YouTube isn't a charity, it's not Wikipedia.

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1. astura ◴[12 Nov 25 13:14 UTC] No.45899740[source]▶
>Watching YT at work is a major thing.

Where are these jobs where I can get paid to watch YouTube?

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2. phantasmish ◴[12 Nov 25 13:33 UTC] No.45899920[source]▶
Lots of people listen to the audio. It’s like a podcast, or having the radio on, which is fine in lots and lots of jobs.

Some people probably also literally watch it, but I know multiple people who basically use it as a radio at work.

Plus, never worked anywhere where half of everyone, including management, is more-or-less openly watching sports more than working during major tournaments?

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3. crazygringo ◴[12 Nov 25 13:38 UTC] No.45899999[source]▶
And nobody's saying you're getting paid to watch YouTube all day. But video links get sent around, and people check out whatever 3 minute video. They watch during lunch. You know how it is.
4. JimmyBiscuit ◴[12 Nov 25 14:25 UTC] No.45900580[source]▶
In small shops youtube is quite a handy source of information. I have to prototype and 3D print lots of stuff.
5. ux266478 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:52 UTC] No.45900956[source]▶
I think it would give me a life crisis and I'd feel like a failure of a boss if I learned my otherwise productive employees felt they couldn't watch sloptube the clock. A sysadmin that isn't constantly jacked into nethack is hardly a sysadmin at all. You should really demand more humane working conditions if you feel like you have to micro-optimize your work day.
6. iggldiggl ◴[12 Nov 25 16:32 UTC] No.45902175[source]▶
Working in infrastructure design (specifically railways), cab ride videos are often useful to fill in gaps in as-built plans or the pictures you took on a site visit (you'll always miss out to photograph something that'll be of major interest later), especially in early planning phases. Plus there's the odd software tutorial video here and there, too, of course.