| ▲ | 0-_-0 8 hours ago |
| Very unlikely, you need the browser for that |
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| ▲ | petcat 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading) |
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| ▲ | basilikum 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint. | | |
| ▲ | netsharc 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend... |
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| ▲ | estimator7292 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Good thing yt-dlp is a browser. |
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| ▲ | direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's not. It runs enough JavaScript to pass the CAPTCCA (completely automated public turing test to tell computers and computers apart) challenge but it doesn't actually load the page and execute everything. |
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