← Back to context Comment by 0-_-0 3 hours ago Very unlikely, you need the browser for that 4 comments 0-_-0 Reply estimator7292 1 hour ago Good thing yt-dlp is a browser. petcat 3 hours ago I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading) basilikum 3 hours ago 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 2 hours ago I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...
petcat 3 hours ago I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading) basilikum 3 hours ago 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 2 hours ago I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...
basilikum 3 hours ago 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 2 hours ago I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...
netsharc 2 hours ago I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...
Good thing yt-dlp is a browser.
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
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.
I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...