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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 05:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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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/
>>>>
>>>> Or to download the latest one directly:
>>>> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl
>>>
>>> And of course after saying that, it's not working for me today.
>>>
>> 
>> 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.
>
> 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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