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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by trulyme on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:15PM (#29595108)
Is this a quasi-captcha because of some legal reasons? I would assume math problems are easy to solve for a computer (easier than for most of the humans, actually).
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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by stefan_ on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:41PM (#29596384)
It's just a flippant way of saying "hiding the URL or parameters behind running JavaScript that serves no other purpose than obfuscation". See also this commit:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4...

Of course this is easy to solve, but every layer of obfuscation they add generally requires someone to go and work around it in yt-dlp. It's mutually assured time waste on both sides.

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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by OneLeggedCat on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:02PM (#29597633)
> mutually assured time waste

I just learned an awesome new term. Thank you

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