Re: Heat Death of the Internet

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date	2024-08-03 15:10 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 15:45 this Friday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 12:45 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> You were probably using a distro-packaged version or the old one on
>>>>>> their website. Newer executables built from the development code
>>>>>> are available here:
>>>>>> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or to download the latest one directly:
>>>>>> https://github.com/ytdl-patched/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl
>>>>>
>>>>> And of course after saying that, it's not working for me today.
>>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Try yt-dlp, worked great for me yesterday! ;)
>>>> 
>>>> Jokes aside, it is probably just some change from youtube, so do an update 
>>>> and it usually starts to work again.
>>>
>>> It is.  Youtube is constatantly making "changes", presumably to try to 
>>> break downloaders and the like in an attempt to prop up their ad 
>>> revenue.
>> 
>> And ad-blockers! The other day, they made some change that made the
>> video appear to buffer while I presume it was trying to play an ad.
>> Thankfully, the guys at uBlock managed to block it within a day or two.
>
> Yes, that too, since ad-blockers also reduce their ad impressions.
>
> Remember, youtube/google are, first and formost, advertising companies.  
> Anything even remotely useful to us (video streaming, search, etc.) is 
> a far distant second to the needs of those advertisers.
>
> If they could still serve ad impressions but not offer all those 
> secondary (to them) useful services, guess where the useful services 
> would go.....


Google has killed so many products theres a whole website dedicated to
the "Google Graveyard"
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Re: Heat Death of the Internet Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-28 08:34 +0000
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-28 14:40 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-28 19:15 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-29 08:51 +1000
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-29 11:06 +0200
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-30 08:20 +1000
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-30 16:40 +0000
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-31 08:16 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 11:11 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-07-31 12:13 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 12:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 22:02 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 20:28 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-07-31 19:01 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-01 11:00 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-01 10:56 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-02 22:06 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-08-02 21:24 +0100
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-03 14:09 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 02:35 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-04 11:07 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 17:21 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-05 15:08 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-02 05:40 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-02 15:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-03 15:10 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-02 22:07 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-03 15:10 +0000

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