Thanks for the references to youtube-dlc. Now I can keep pretending to be invincible with youtube. On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 12:10 AM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
youtube-dl's source repository was issued a dmca takedown notice the very same day and is no longer easily accessible.
what do you mean not easily accesible?
all you need to access it is 1 click.
now hopefully they will stop using garbage like github...
It's scary that they haven't linked to a mirror source repository on that page, but maybe they are protecting it. It's also scary they distribute binaries when the app is written in python, but windows users don't have python. To do the crucial work of repeatedly stating the obvious in public, if the source code isn't available it's much harder to protect people against or find workarounds for incompatible, corrupt, or maliciously altered downloads. If the source history isn't available, it's much harder to sort out bugs or malicious alterations in the source code itself. As punk half-asserts, signed tarballs (which have source code but not history) are still available at https://yt-dl.org/download.html which is a blessing, although it seems there are even better solutions kicking around.