Re: Heat Death of the Internet

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 12:45 this Wednesday (GMT):

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

 
 
On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
 

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

You were probably using a distro-packaged version or the old one on
their website. Newer executables built from the development code
are available here:
https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/
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Or to download the latest one directly:
https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl

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And of course after saying that, it's not working for me today.
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Try yt-dlp, worked great for me yesterday! ;)
 
Jokes aside, it is probably just some change from youtube, so do an update
and it usually starts to work again.

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It is.  Youtube is constatantly making "changes", presumably to try to
break downloaders and the like in an attempt to prop up their ad
revenue.

 
And ad-blockers! The other day, they made some change that made the
video appear to buffer while I presume it was trying to play an ad.
Thankfully, the guys at uBlock managed to block it within a day or two.

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Yes, that too, since ad-blockers also reduce their ad impressions.
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Remember, youtube/google are, first and formost, advertising companies. 
Anything even remotely useful to us (video streaming, search, etc.) is
a far distant second to the needs of those advertisers.
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If they could still serve ad impressions but not offer all those
secondary (to them) useful services, guess where the useful services
would go.....