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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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Tabular-Iceberg ◴[12 Nov 25 13:36 UTC] No.45899963[source]▶
I remember when QuickTime came out in 1991 and it was obvious to everyone that video should be copied, pasted and saved like any arbitrary data.

It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays, even video that's not encumbered by DRM or complex JavaScript clients.

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1. thijson ◴[12 Nov 25 14:41 UTC] No.45900818[source]▶
I was just reading how ATSC 3 (over the air TV) is kind of stalling because they added DRM fairly late in the roll out. Several people bought receivers that are now incompatible.
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2. Marsymars ◴[12 Nov 25 15:56 UTC] No.45901708[source]▶
Also, I'm not sure what the actual numbers are, but my impression is that a significant portion of OTA enthusiasts are feeding their OTA signals into a network connected tuner (HDHomeRun, Tablo, AirTV, etc.) and DRM kills all of these.
3. Telaneo ◴[12 Nov 25 19:08 UTC] No.45904615[source]▶
DRM being forced into freeview TV seems like a contradiction in terms, and yet here we are.