u/JarlBallnuts

Was this issue finally addressed by Brave or did X relax their petty anti-tracking detection? In the past, shields would prevent X's login form from loading entirely. This video shows the login form appearing and disappearing as I disable/enable Brave's tracking:

https://www.reddit.com/user/JarlBallnuts/comments/1uszi1n/xcom_blocking_login_w_brave_shields_up/

Sometime within the past few days, though, this seems to have been fixed as I am able to log in just fine, even on an incognito tab. Just wondering if this is permanent or if we can expect this behavior to return.

I have been buying these beans off Amazon:

• Primos Unroasted Green Arabica Coffee Beans - 10 Lb - Nicaraguan Caturra
• Primos Unroasted Green Arabica Coffee Beans - 3 Lb - Nicaraguan Parainema

Don't want to link them because that just causes problems.

I've been getting them because they're $0.50/oz, the lowest price I have found anywhere with free Amazon shipping to boot. I have gone through about 25 lbs of the Caturra and just recently the 3-lb Parainema. I cannot get a good, full-bodied brew out of these no matter what I do. I have roasted in pans, woks, pots, and in the oven. These roasted beans smell amazing when I open the container and after grinding, but the actual brew is just weak. I was once able to get a good roast after re-roasting a pan roast in my air fryer, but haven't succeeded since.

I've gotten my pan-roasting technique down pretty good and have tried getting first crack between the 6- and 10-minute marks. Roast for about 15 minutes while whisking aggressively. I get good, even coloring, no inconsistent "rocky road" mix. Doesn't matter. Once I brew it, it's weak. I am wondering if it's just the beans themselves because I find it hard to believe I am this inept that I can't roast a decent batch after 25+ pounds. What am I doing wrong?

The aggressive measures websites are taking to profile users is getting ridiculous and borderline criminal imo. They need to be stopped. Brave browser now leads the way in anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting, and some websites are combatting this by resorting to either breaking their own sites or flagging users as bots which lead to vague and frivolous bans. X is probably the worst offender. With Brave's shields up, X disables login entirely (edit: It seems that this issue was either addressed by Brave or X as I am now able to login with shields up). You have to at least allow tracking/ads just to log in. They are also mass banning users with the blanket/catch-all "inauthentic behaviors" ban and are ignoring or rejecting appeals. It's bullshit.

I envision the Consumer Data, Privacy, and Anonymity Protection Act. It would prohibit any service from attempting to uniquely identify any user, device, software, or behavioral patterns (usage, mouse clicks/movement patterns, keylogging, etc), or any derivatives thereof. It also prohibits companies from denying, restricting, or reducing the quality of their services to human users. This is ALL online services, not just social media. It would even extend to Cloudflare and Arkose whose bot detection services oftentimes 403 if the user is using a VPN that the service doesn't like. Captchas would still be allowed so long as they do not attempt to uniquely identify the end user.

The only thing that will stop this is hardline federal legislation. Brave leads the way in Browser security, so perhaps they could team up with the EFF and begin a coalition of giants who can lobby congress to finally put an end to this madness. I just want my old 2000's internet back.

yt-dlp is good if you want to be a CLI technician, but the Video Downloadhelper browser extension just works. The devs could eliminate probably 90% of their support headaches by mimmicking whatever it is that VDH is doing because it's a one-click-and-done almost all of the time. If I want to download a video through yt-dlp, I usually have to go down the deep rabbit hole of diagnostics and research to figure out how to build the perfect command line for that one particular download. With VDH, I never have any 403 issues. It runs through the browser's request pipeline, properly building the headers and behaving like a web browser which throws off almost all anti-bot methods. VHD works without any add-ons and js runtimes. It just works. Why can't yt-dlp just work?

The downside is that it is not FOSS and the source is heavily coveted by the author who charges money for it. You get 1 free HLS download every 2 hours and it doesn't support time ranges which is why I like yt-dlp so much, but it's such a headache to use due to its unreliability. I think yt-dlp is becoming outmoded by other downloaders and needs to catch up.

I posted about this before and got a decent amount of upvotes. Maybe the devs will see this again and consider implementing an internal headless browser that is seamless to the user. It would simply interpret the cli arguments as browser macro commands behind the scenes. It could use its own headless browser or allow the user to provide their own.

Forbid you come to the r/brave_browser sub to ask a support question on...... the Brave browser. Crazy idea, isn't it, to go to the support sub of the Browser you use and NOT expect to be harangued by cultists who don't even use it? And whoa.... got an issue with Brave AND the X social media platform? Get ready for the ride of your life because the anti-X weirdos are even worse off. You get a one-two punch of feral seething and spittle slinging if you have issues with the two at the same time.

Surely, there are medications to help these people cope with what ails them.

Video Downloadhelper (VDH) is almost 100% reliable and dependable for downloading any video I encounter online. If my browser can play it, VDH can download it. I don't think I have found a video that it cannot download. Unfortunately, it is neither free nor open source, offering 1 download every 2 hours. There are ways to get around the limits, but the question here is how it's able to succeed where yt-dlp fails? I can never 100% rely on yt-dlp being able to download a video as I am many times met with 403 or other vague errors. Not VDH. One click and it downloads without a hassle. Every single time. Why can't yt-dlp do the same?

Seems like the advantage VDH has is that it runs in the browser, so it doesn't have to emulate anything. Would it help if yt-dlp used a headless browser behind the scenes? This could eliminate all of the tedium in trying to diagnose why a server is refusing requests, so no fiddling with multiple combinations of switches and arguments. Should I use referrer? Should I use cookies? Do I need a custom extractor? Should I do this or do that? No more questions, just one command line and it's done. Here's the URL. Get me the video.

I'd really like to find a FOSS replacement for the premium-based, heavily obfuscated, closed-source VDH. Would be nice if yt-dlp could achieve that.

It's just a web browser extension. Seems like it would be easy to... fix.. you know?

edit: what i've been doing is installing it on multiple browser profiles. it works, so that tells me it's not tracking my IP address. the data/flags must be stored locally within the browser somewhere, so there must be an easy way to reset it

Seems like constant overrides of an ever-evolving code base will be difficult to maintain at some point. Wondering when Brave will have no choice but to relent and adopt Chromium's new manifest v3.

I am trying to download a section from a video using this command line:

"yt-dlp.exe"
"https://somesite.com/playlist.m3u8"
--referer "https://somesite.com/"
--ffmpeg-location "F:\ffmpeg\bin"
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36"
--force-keyframes-at-cuts
--download-sections "*00:04:04-00:06:01"
-o "movie %(timestamp)s %(webpage_title|title|id)s [%(section_start)s-%(section_end)s].%(ext)s"

It outputs nothing but errors:

[generic] Extracting URL: https://somesite.com/playlist.m3u8
[generic] index: Downloading webpage
[generic] index: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] index: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] index: Downloading 1 format(s): 0
[info] index: Downloading 1 time ranges: 244.0-361.0
[download] Destination: movie 1781209606 title｜id [244.0-361.0].mp4
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Skip ('#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES')
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Skip ('#EXT-X-VERSION:3')
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-1-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020d9f6ab080] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 1 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 1 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-2-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020d9f6ab080] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 2 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 2 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-3-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020da150b240] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 3 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 3 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-5-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020da150b240] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 4 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 4 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-6-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020da150b240] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 5 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 5 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Opening 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-10-v1-a1.ts' for reading
[https @ 0000020da150b240] HTTP error 404 Not Found
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Failed to open segment 6 of playlist 0
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Segment 6 of playlist 0 failed too many times, skipping
[hls @ 0000020d9f61a340] Error when loading first segment 'https://somesite.com/1080/seg-1-v1-a1.ts'
[in#0 @ 0000020d9f5db480] Error opening input: Invalid data found when processing input
Error opening input file https://somesite.com/playlist.m3u8.
Error opening input files: Invalid data found when processing input

ERROR: ffmpeg exited with code 3199971767

When I remove --download-sections "*00:04:04-00:06:01", I can download and play the entire video locally in VLC just fine. I can download sections with every other video I try except for this one. Any idea what's going on?

I can't imagine simping and fawning so hard over a piece of software as so many do. There have been plenty of programs that I've absolutely loved over the ages, but I've never fallen head over heels for any of them. I am always super critical of even the most well-designed and intuitive software.

The recent Brave Origin release has really shined light on this. The number of people who are fanatically throwing their money at it like a church offering and then proselytizing over their payment and nagging those who question their undying loyalty is worthy of study.