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

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798 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source
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globular-toast ◴[12 Nov 25 13:12 UTC] No.45899717[source]▶
It's quite worrying. A sizeable chunk of cultural and educational material produced in the last decade is in control of greedy bastards who will never have enough. Unfortunately, downloading the video data is only part of it. Even if we shared it all on BitTorrent it's nowhere near as useful without the index and metadata.
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1. anal_reactor ◴[12 Nov 25 14:42 UTC] No.45900827[source]▶
From the preservation point of view yes. But realistically, it's been the norm throughout human history that irrelevant culture simply gets removed.