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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: 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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guardian5x ◴[12 Nov 25 14:34 UTC] No.45900707[source]▶
Back then, the focus was on optimising for the user. Now, however, companies prioritise their own interests over the user.
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vladms ◴[12 Nov 25 14:48 UTC] No.45900912[source]▶
Indeed, the good old days when "optimizing for the user" got us... Windows 3.1 (release date April 6, 1992 , ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...) or the first version of Linux - which I did not have the honor to use but I can imagine how user friendly it was considering what I ended up using couple of years later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux)

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1. noir_lord ◴[12 Nov 25 15:04 UTC] No.45901109{3}[source]▶
There are myriad ways to optimise for the user, user friendliness is only one of them.

As the old joke went "Unix is user friendly, it's particular about who its friends are".