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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:45:37 -0000 (UTC)
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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.....