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yt-dlp feels like a whole army fighting Google. Users reporting and the army performs.

• dewey 11mo ago
  If by army you mean underfunded open source volunteers then yes.
  • worldsavior 11mo ago
    That's the point, they don't have the fund but still give the sense of fight and power of an army.
  • Almondsetat 11mo ago
    If it's free, can you even talk about underfunding?
    • dewey 11mo ago
      You can donate to a free project, including yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Maintainers.md#maintainers https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Maintainers.md#...)
      • Almondsetat 11mo ago
        The developers can arbitrarily decide their own goals and always claim underfunding, that's why it's meaningless in this context
        • dewey 11mo ago
          I'm not sure what you are arguing for or against, but the fact that big corporations are built on top of the work of volunteers (curl, ffmpeg) who mostly have to beg for funding is a known fact. Example from yesterday: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/ https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-send...
          • Almondsetat 11mo ago
            Nobody "has to" beg for funding, because nobody is forcing them to work! You are underfunded if you are forced to accomplish a task and are given too little money. In community driven projects this is not the case. The only thing keeping the developers from taking a nice vacation is their abstract own sense of duty, which is their prerogative, but completely optional