• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    With websites, you know it’s on purpose. With dial up, it was just the technology back then

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      1 month ago

      I’m embarrassed to admit how naive I was back in the 90s. I truly and genuinely thought that all limitations were inherently technological in nature.

      Even though I knew capitalism was the enemy of humanity, I still very much naively thought that it would keep progressing because “of course it would”.

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      1 month ago

      Just waiting for this epic battle in my browser between YouTube and uBlock Origin to conclude before it finally loads the play button…

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        1 month ago

        When I download a youtube video with yt-dlp, one of the output lines is always

        [download] Sleeping 5.00 seconds as required by the site...

        I think this is hardcoded into the site at this point, especially if you don’t use Chrome.