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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 15:10:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 15:45 this Friday (GMT):
> 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/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>
> Yes, that too, since ad-blockers also reduce their ad impressions.
>
> 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.
>
> If they could still serve ad impressions but not offer all those 
> secondary (to them) useful services, guess where the useful services 
> would go.....


Google has killed so many products theres a whole website dedicated to
the "Google Graveyard"
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