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

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798 points bertman | 2 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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wiseowise ◴[12 Nov 25 12:44 UTC] No.45899462[source]▶
Pffft, and good riddance, comrade! Just think about native application and native performance, great native animations and native experience (and native ads, of course)! We won't have this god-awful Web (that propelled modern tech world in the first place) anymore, we can finally have personal vendetta against awful JS and DOM. No more interoperability, no more leverage against corpos, just glorious proprietary enclaves where local tyrant can do anything they want!
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1. ux266478 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:39 UTC] No.45900779[source]▶
> No more interoperability

> no more leverage against corpos

> just glorious proprietary enclaves where local tyrant can do anything they want!

These are all literally consequences of the web btw, as are things like attestation in consumer hardware.

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2. wiseowise ◴[12 Nov 25 15:54 UTC] No.45901687[source]▶
> These are all literally consequences of the web btw, as are things like attestation in consumer hardware.

Totally this, and not because powers suddenly realized they can't control Web like they controlled early "smart" dumb phones circa J2ME times.