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: 0.232s | 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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usrbinbash ◴[12 Nov 25 15:00 UTC] No.45901071[source]▶

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> It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays

Has nothing to do with video per se. Normal embeddings, using the standard `<video>` element and no unnecessary JS nonsense, still work the same way they did in the 90s: Right click the video and download it, it's a media element like any other.

The reason why user experience is going to shite, is because turbocapitalism went to work on what was once The Internet, and is trying to turn it into a paywalled profit-machine.

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1. nurettin ◴[12 Nov 25 15:05 UTC] No.45901124[source]▶

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Technically, you can profit off of ad revenue and subscriptions without exploiting the labour of your workers, so in this particular case it has nothing to do with the economic regime. Enshittification is its own thing.

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