Re: Free-Software Youtube downloader

[Jean Louis]

* Jonathan Carter <address@hidden> [2019-10-14 02:26]:
> On 2019/10/13 20:44, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
> > Le samedi 12 octobre 2019, 11:19:22 CEST Jean Louis a écrit :
> >> Try to watch YouTube videos by using hypervideo or youtube
> >> downloaders.
> > 
> > Please correct me right away if I’m wrong (just posting that right away 
> > upon 
> > reading) —I’d be happy to be— but currently there’s no free-software 
> > youtube 
> > downloader as youtube makes them need to execute autogenerated non-free 
> > javascript to get essential information to download them, isn’t it?
> 
> youtube-dl works great and is free (free enough to be considered DFSG
> free and in Debian main).

I am not sure there, does it use non-free javascript?

Why then did Hyperbola people remove youtube-dl from system and
introduced hypervideo: https://libregit.org/heckyel/hypervideo which
is fork of youtube-dl but described "without using non-free
javascript"?

Jean