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		zelphirkalt 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube down... Sounds like a really silly way to engineer things, but then again Google has the workforce to do lots of silly things and the cash to burn, so they can afford it.

Klonoar 4 months ago [–]

It's silly from an engineering perspective, but unfortunately clever from YT's perspective of "how do we complicate this as much as possible".

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