Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
by folli on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:44PM
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You can use curl if you don't like browsers. It just needs a lot of imagination to get an idea on how the site is supposed to look like.
Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
by qwerty456127 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:38AM
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Whatever, pmoriarty is right. Today a browser indeed is an operating system with its own GUI toolkit and a decentralized repository of apps (we call the web, most of the sites actually are apps today).
Perhaps if the web servers served something like QML/XAML/whatever (while other web servers serving just APIs for them to get/post the content) and there was an operating system command to run such an app by its URL, both the developers and the users might have a better experience. Or perhaps worse.
This way we might even have more than one standard competing: QML, XAML and whatever else would emerge (introducing new would be more viable) vs just HTML.
The web browser is becoming just a shitty operating system, largely controlled by unaccountable megacorps who are primarily interested not in empowering users but in tracking them and serving them ads.