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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by q-rews on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:51AM (#28324418)
It’s annoying that this has been downvoted because having your identity in easily-readable files on your computer is literally worse than saving passwords in a text file: Passwords will prompt 2FA, notifications and whatnot; Cookies might just work, albeit temporarily.
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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by avhception on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:01AM (#28325386)
While I see the problem with malicious applications pillaging your users home directory, let's not forget that being able to tinker and hack together things is also one of the greatest strengths of the desktop platform.
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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by q-rews on Saturday August 28, 2021 @02:26AM (#28336057)
Yes please keep storing your passwords on the desktop just because the desktop platform is so great.

Your reasoning makes zero sense. You can keep the platform strong and still keep some information safe, no?

WTF HN

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by t-3 on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:33PM (#28343852)
Availability is a fundamental part of security - if the information you wish to access is made unavailable to you, that is a security failure. If the only goal was confidentiality, we would turn the computers off and bury them in concrete.
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