Re: Heat Death of the Internet

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date	2024-08-02 22:07 +0200
Organization	i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
Message-ID	<f0df7016-a79f-4e22-2b4b-b500b14d1aae@example.net> (permalink)
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, candycanearter07 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.
>

Ahh... so that is the explanation! I wondered why this started to happen, 
but good that the good guys are on top of it! =)

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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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