cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Yesterday my wife had trouble with a youtube video she was trying to watch. It kept stopping at a specific point and she couldn't advance beyond it. It was a video lecture for a class she is taking at the community college. I was able to bypass whatever the issue was by using yt-dlp, but it got me thinking about how these private services become de facto public infrastructure without us really giving it any thought.