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: 0.206s | 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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psychoslave ◴[12 Nov 25 14:17 UTC] No.45900487[source]▶

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Yes, I see Youtube going deep into enshitiffication. On my Macbook this morning with a FF-dev edition it just stopped to work this morning. Don't know if it's related to the fact I tried to install an extension to "force H264" on my Ubuntu box. On the latter fans started to go crazy as soon as I open a single youtube tab lately and a quick research led me there.

Actually at this point the only thing that makes the good old aMule a bit less inconvenient to my own expectations are

- it's missing snippet previews

- it doesn't have as many resources on every topic out there.

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1. irthomasthomas ◴[12 Nov 25 15:16 UTC] No.45901237[source]▶

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I've got a fresh install of endeavouros/arch and yt is horribly slow now. The upside is I've reduced my usage of the site.

Oh and it's not working at all on my desktop with the same setup, it's telling me to disable ad block. I'd rather give up yt.

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