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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:34PM (#24911566)
YouTube is increasingly only a few pain points from mass exodus from both creators and audience. Advertisers and copyright maximalists less so.

Bandwidth and distribution are no longer the limitations on independent hosting they once were. Independent discovery methods (e.g., DDG video search), are improving. Noncommercial orientation makes youtube-dl and similar mechanisms a net positive --- simplify the web-based delivery, increase viewer flexibility, provide greater tolerance for network or system variability.

My own interest in YouTube has very little to do with commercial mass media, and far less to do with ad-seeking chum-spewing bottom-feeders.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by rpgmaker on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:56PM (#24913448)
>YouTube is increasingly only a few pain points from mass exodus from both creators and audience.

I hate to burst your bubble but that's not even close to be a realistic possibility. Wish it was but it's just not.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by mordae on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:31PM (#24914023)
Go ask Twitch users.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by xiphias2 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:05PM (#24911881)
I love that youtube for me works everywhere: on my iPad, Samsung phone and my smart TV, laptop, the offline viewing mode is better than in any other application. None of these are hard to replicate, but it's still a lot of work (and some of the devices that I mentioned are walled gardens).
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:15PM (#24914313)
Youtube works poorly on my Android tablet, my aging Linux desktop, and even on a recent iMac, the flexibility of mpv, mps-youtube, or VLC is often preferable.

More options are more options, surprisingly enough.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by tpxl on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:54PM (#24913441)
A plethora of video players support playing from a network source. You can watch youtube via VLC! The technology is not a problem, the network is.
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