Users should not click a YouTube link and be automatically bombarded with
proprietary JavaScript, like what currently happens in Abrowser.
Users should be able to click a YouTube link and automatically view the
video, channel, playlist, and comments without running proprietary
JavaScript.
Users should not have to click the link, arrive at a blank page, copy the
URI, open VLC, and paste the URI.
Users should not have to click the link, arrive at a blank page, copy the
URI, open youtube-dlG, paste the URI, open the file manager, navigate to the
folder where the video is, and double click the video.
Users should not have to click the link, arrive at a blank page, copy the
URI, open a terminal, type 'mpv', paste the URI, and press Enter.
Users should not have to refer other people to YouTube URIs, leading
recipients to run proprietary JavaScript on their systems.
The ability to watch YouTube videos should not be browser-dependent. Any
time you go to YouTube, it works without proprietary software.
I have inspiration for a solution.
There is a service called Hooktube, which is not free software, and has
recently decided to demand JavaScript of its users, but has a great interface
and is used in a very simple way: replace "youtube" with "hooktube", and it
just werks.
Someone should copy Hooktube, but make it free software, working without
JavaScript, and locally hosted. All YouTube links should redirect to this
local interface from any program.
Yes/No?
