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		somat 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required f... My understanding is that the original yt-dl used the browser interface. yt-dlp uses the android app interface.

Thorrez 32 days ago [–]

>This impacts yt-dlp as we currently request video data from YouTube as if we were YouTube on TV.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563

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