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Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use, to comment how this is an injustice.
by gnuplustoejam 1mo ago
Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use, to comment how this is an injustice.
To the aggrieved I say: 403 Forbidden.
In their defense, you're not getting the full YouTube experience without ads of an AI doctor selling you suppositories.
- afavour 1mo agoThis might be the first HN thread I’ve seen where the statement “regiwalled content is bad” is somehow attracting a lot of negative reactions…
- miloignis 1mo agoThere's a bit difference between breaking a scraper and sending Cease and Desist letters. Also, blocking scraping is very rich (and expectedly hypocritical) for an AI company, which SpaceX is now.
- notpushkin 1mo agoGoogle has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well. And of course, Google is an AI company, too.
- account42 1mo agoWasn't it a DMCA takedown actually?
- notpushkin 1mo agoThere are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?
- gamer191 1mo agoIt was the RIAA, not Google It failed because it didn’t make any technical sense. The RIAA was trying to argue that YouTube’s proof-of-work JavaScript challenges were some kind of DRM and by running JavaScript YouTube-dl was circumventing DRM
- Catloafdev 1mo agoI don't get it, are you implying everyone who's not a fan of this change is a Google employee?
- ryandrake 1mo agoMaybe he's saying everyone who works at Google works on breaking yt-dlp...?
- pferde 1mo agoJudging by the amount of work that's being done on youtube that does nothing but make things harder for third party tools, without bringing any benefit to anything or anyone else, that might not be far from the truth. :)
- account42 1mo agoTo me Google's actions wrt yt-dlp seem to be more of the "look here mr. music industry, we're doing something" rather than a serious attempt at blocking it.
- pferde 1mo agoGoogle is in strong enough position against the music industry that they could just tell them off, because where else is the music industry going to go?
- pbhjpbhj 1mo agoPretty sure it was a satirical joke.
- avaer 1mo agoMost people on HN don't work at Google. And most would probably agree that both Google and Twitter are being user-hostile.