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[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Looks to me it is just MS playing hard to get with Google.

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[+] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

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[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yes, the article is not very good. Main players here are google and gihub. My experience with media is that they often don't publish everything, sometimes because of incompetence sometimes for sponsor money. So we have to use our heads a bit.

Not even mentioning google, not even.asking google what they think of youtube-dl, not even asking MS to comment. Give us at least a question and 'they said no comment'.

Not really good reporting and we got used to that.

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[+] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] PolybiusPro@lemmy.world 39 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This seems like it would follow along the same lines as emulators and torrent downloaders. If you don't download anything illegal with it, you're not doing anything wrong. I use this software for work to download good resolution/low filesize copies of my client's videos. Hopefully I can continue using it.

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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

All else fails, grab yt-dlp. It's a fork that I tend to find works better than normal youtube-dl anyway.

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[–] PolybiusPro@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

I'm actually already using this fork! I do enjoy the level of configuration yt-dlp has

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[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 27 points 3 years ago

I don't even think you need to go as far as comparing it to emulators and torrent downloaders. It just downloads what's publicly hosted on the web, it's no different from a web browser basically.

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[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 years ago (2 children)

They should just move it to a non-Western jurisdiction.

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[–] YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 years ago

It was a German court apparently, according to the article

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Yes, that would be for the best.

Similar to how certain VPN/Mail clients/journalists (due to leaks) and others are in non-western areas.

I am forgetting some...

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[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

There is some difference between private communication and open source code that smis available to anyone.

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[–] nonearther@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

There's already a fork

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[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

yt-dlp is an old fork, and very good. It's insanely fast.

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[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

isn't yt-dlp the one to use anyway? I heard that youtube-dl is deprecated and dlp is the way to go.

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[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 5 points 3 years ago

Yes

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[–] iod@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

I believe youtube-dl are just slower at accepting merges. For example yt-dlp were the first to mitigate youtube's speed throttling and idk if the base project has it even now. It's still functional but may be slower.