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It’s not a bug. Youtube deliberately throttles downloads unless the client can answer a math question.
by db48x 5y ago
It’s not a bug. Youtube deliberately throttles downloads unless the client can answer a math question.
- sp332 5y agoI didn't know about this. How does it work? youtubedown gets around the throttling by opening a bunch of connections at once.
- trulyme 5y agoIs 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).
- stefan_ 5y agoIt'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/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4301aa7b8f734ee4bc67b 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.
- OneLeggedCat 5y ago> mutually assured time waste I just learned an awesome new term. Thank you
- dbavaria 5y agoThat's excessive for the oddly specific group of users who are ironically going to YouTube for math help.
- asddubs 5y agoseems like it would be exactly what they need
- angry_octet 5y agoI think questions like « Prove that the union of finitely many compact sets in a topological space (X,τ) is also compact » would certainly achieve rate limiting and boost global math skills.
- Anunayj 5y agoI seem passing by this really funny captcha on the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service's [1] signup page. [1] http://random.irb.hr/signup.php http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
- angry_octet 5y agoThat's good, but unfortunately security through obscurity (in the true sense of the word).