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

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798 points bertman | 5 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.006s | source
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worldsavior ◴[12 Nov 25 13:11 UTC] No.45899714[source]▶
yt-dlp feels like a whole army fighting Google. Users reporting and the army performs.
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dewey ◴[12 Nov 25 13:33 UTC] No.45899918[source]▶
If by army you mean underfunded open source volunteers then yes.
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1. Almondsetat ◴[12 Nov 25 14:22 UTC] No.45900546[source]▶
If it's free, can you even talk about underfunding?
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2. dewey ◴[12 Nov 25 15:00 UTC] No.45901069[source]▶
You can donate to a free project, including yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Maintainers.md#...)
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3. Almondsetat ◴[12 Nov 25 15:48 UTC] No.45901604[source]▶
The developers can arbitrarily decide their own goals and always claim underfunding, that's why it's meaningless in this context
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4. dewey ◴[12 Nov 25 17:22 UTC] No.45902857{3}[source]▶
I'm not sure what you are arguing for or against, but the fact that big corporations are built on top of the work of volunteers (curl, ffmpeg) who mostly have to beg for funding is a known fact.

Example from yesterday: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-send...

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5. Almondsetat ◴[12 Nov 25 17:52 UTC] No.45903303{4}[source]▶
Nobody "has to" beg for funding, because nobody is forcing them to work! You are underfunded if you are forced to accomplish a task and are given too little money. In community driven projects this is not the case. The only thing keeping the developers from taking a nice vacation is their abstract own sense of duty, which is their prerogative, but completely optional