Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote: > * Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> [2019-10-12 16:01]: >> Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbQ1kc1vQU or >> > https://watchkin.com/y/7UbQ1kc1vQU >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF17TbbBcE >> >> I’m curious, what this watchkin.com link is for? I expected, that this is >> some SaaS like invidio.us — a substitute for mpv+youtube-dl / weboob / >> minitube / newpipe / etc to watch youtube.com videos avoiding running >> nonfree scripts, but it’s not: it still contains nonfree scripts. >> >> So why to provide it? And why only for the first video? > > You are right. Make it non-javascript link and send it to me.
Well, I already mentioned one service that might used as a substitute for a free youtube.com client — invidio.us, so the links will be: — https://invidio.us/watch?v=7UbQ1kc1vQU — https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZGF17TbbBcE But actually I would advice _against_ providing them instead of original youtube.com ones. Not only because that’s a SaaS(S) [1] with all negative implications, like a chance of being shut down at any moment in future. But also because it provides practical inconvenience for the free software users right now: if your system is configured to opens youtube.com links in a player of your choice, it probably does not do the same for any of those SaaS client. Moreover, I don’t think it is possible at all to make, say, NewPipe or SkyTube (free youtube.com clients for *droid-like OS) to handle invidio.us links without patching and recompiling them. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
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