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> YouTube is constantly breaking, probably on purpose to thwart youtube-dl. I don't think they're trying to thwart youtube-dl, because there's so many low-hang
by majewsky 6y ago
> YouTube is constantly breaking, probably on purpose to thwart youtube-dl.
I don't think they're trying to thwart youtube-dl, because there's so many low-hanging-fruit countermeasures that they don't employ. youtube-dl can download a playlist with hundreds of videos at 1000x playback speed. You can't tell me that's not distinguishable from regular users going through the website.
What's more likely IMO is that the constant changes that ytdl is catching up with are caused by good old CADT (Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers) inside Google, driven by their infamous "build over maintain" culture.