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Comment by linux2647

3 years ago

IIRC not exactly. YouTube provides some arbitrary JavaScript that must be evaluated as a form of a challenge. It changes with every page request, but it’s just a set of math operations. It’s easier to evaluate the JS than to statically analyze it

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