It’s annoying but I guess they’re just evolving their anti spam mechanisms, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

JS is one of the most popular scripting languages anyway so having it as a requirement shouldn’t hinder anyone.

And not to throw shade at the people who designed yt-dlp, but designing a tool to “scrap” the content of an evolving platform in a different language (with different tooling etc) than the one said platform is expecting to be consumed by might have been a mistake

That works for the web, because you control the browser & can know the domain before it gets resolved (& encrypted by DOH/DOT), but for a fridge you’re SOL

And most of Europe as well…

But they’re already not making money, losing customers during the supposed growth phase is absolutely devastating. It’s occuring all while AI is being subsidized by massive investments from the likes of microsoft and google, and many more namelesss VCs through OpenAI, anthropic etc.

Yes the difference is there. But if you’re giving a special significance to the dildo, be prepared for the jurisprudence to be twisted into something you very much don’t want.