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

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798 points bertman | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | 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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throwaway94275 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:11 UTC] No.45900417[source]▶
1991 was the vibrant, exciting, crazy "adolescence" of the PC age and well into the period where it was cool to have a desktop PC and really learn about it.

Phones are dominant now and have passed the PC generation by - in number, not capability. The concept of copy/paste/save for arbitrary data lives on for the non-tech masses only in the form of screenshots and screen recording features.

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littlestymaar ◴[12 Nov 25 14:59 UTC] No.45901044[source]▶
long press -> save image/video is perfectly supported on a phone, it's just content diffusion platform that arbitrarily restrict it.
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Tabular-Iceberg ◴[12 Nov 25 15:20 UTC] No.45901280[source]▶
No, it's also iOS that's arbitrarily restricting it. I opened a bare .webm directly in Safari and got nothing on long press and nothing in any of the control widgets to save it.
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1. fragmede ◴[12 Nov 25 19:13 UTC] No.45904714[source]▶
Long pressing on https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07...

gets me

https://imgur.com/a/bseFwX3 on iOS 18, and https://imgur.com/a/Ksbz3zW on iOS 26

Maybe you're holding it wrong?

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2. Tabular-Iceberg ◴[12 Nov 25 22:02 UTC] No.45907429[source]▶
I think you're holding it wrong, because that's a .webp image, not a .webm video.