Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers

Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by goodplay on Sunday November 13, 2016 @09:13AM (#12943381)

One good reason for me personally is to insure future availability. As I type this, there are a couple of videos in my watch-later playlist that have been replaced with "video removed".

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by muntoo on Sunday November 13, 2016 @09:17AM (#12943388)

My Watch Later is like 100 videos long. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by jerf on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:21AM (#12943714)

youtube-dl can download lists of videos.

It also automatically doesn't download things you already have, so it can be used periodically to sync the list if you want.

It only really matters if you expect videos to go down, but I also have my small collection of "videos that were obviously going to be taken down".

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by dawnerd on Sunday November 13, 2016 @02:29PM (#12945119)

This is one of the best features (apart from channel backups).

I think because of its name people also don't realize that youtube-dl works for LOTS of other sites and it's relatively easy to add new sites in as well.

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by morganvachon on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:06AM (#12943623)

You're posting on HN, I would think you would find a way to automate it. ;-)

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by goodplay on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:22AM (#12943727)

I believe youtube-dl is capable of downloading entire lists, but I don't know if the watch-later list behaves as a normal list. One way to find out.

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