/siberia/ - Off-topic

You might have to upgrade to leading edge, this is off the top of my head and I'm drinking but if I remember correctly youtube downloaders now need a fully fledged JavaScript environment to work

Here you go more info at the link
https://www.osnews.com/story/143423/yt-dlp-will-soon-require-a-full-js-runtime-to-overcome-youtubes-js-challenges/

mpv bros… I think it's over for real this time

>>712947
Wouldn't that make it proprietary software, since it executes Google's code?

>>713046
Input data licencing doesn't change licencing of software itself–else processing youtube videos to begin with would make it proprietary.

>>713049
The JavaScript runtime is to execute a piece of proprietary code received from YouTube.

Google fucking sucks

>>713051
I see it as being like Wine / Proton: it's purpose is to run proprietary stuff, with adversarial intent, i.e. wine seeks to render Windows obsolete and thus make people stop compiling for windows all together.
yt-dlp doesn't have as grandiose goals in relation to YouTube specifically, but it's still adversarial: give YouTube the minimum information necessary to download a video, and store it so it doesn't need to be accessed more than once. The minimum now will be a JavaScript runtime in a container, surely with more security measures in place.

behead google