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Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by quux on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:51PM (#45611651)
And thanks to these old endpoints that can’t be changed yt-dlp is able to function
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Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by userbinator on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:41PM (#45612582)
I'd be a bit more careful with making statements like that here. "The walls have ears."
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Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by CursedSilicon on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:33PM (#45613083)
It's not like Youtube's engineers can't just. Download yt-dlp and see how it works

It's not proprietary

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Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by quux on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:21PM (#45620890)
The yt-dlp devs also talk about this openly, in GitHub issues and elsewhere. I think there have been multiple front page stories about how yt-dlp works here on HN over the last few years.
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