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

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810 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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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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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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1. 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.