Upgrade to yt-dlp broke it

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
:
> Unfortunately, they do not have anything like a support mailing list,
> and when it gets to the stage that too many login accounts are required,
> imposing security risks by requiring storage of passwords, because there
> are too many, to remember, due to the lack of support mailing lists,
> then, software becomes effectively unsupported.
>
> It is unfortunate - yt-dlp seemed to work, most of the time - now, it
> simply seems to be like that cloud strike malware, that, through an
> update, revived the Microsoft ultimate security feature - taking all
> systems down with the BSOD feature; this time, cloudstrike struck, with
> the BSOD v2 security feature, taking down global infrastructure, for
> security purposes. And so, yt-dlp. similarly imposed a defective update,
> and blocks communications about it.
>
Well said, but it doesn't change the fact that this is OT for this
email list - we don't support yt-dlp.

It is unfortunate that you feel this way. I never use github and I
have an account, and I manage my passwords myself.

It is possible to work with this stuff. Not always (or ever?)
convenient, but possible.

HTH.

Mark Richter, Retired Expert Software Engineer
Bestselling Author, "Mystic Prince"
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