On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +0000, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> for > > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe > > the debian-user list.) > > > > To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install youtube-dl: > > $ apt-get install youtube-dl > > Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with Google > Chrome. I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those do. I watch > that news-site all the time, several times a day most days, and browse over > the whole site; sometimes just to see if there has been a new newsflash on an > important story. Think of the disk-space needed if I were to download > everything every time! http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html#SpywareInFlash https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash Fortunately YouTube no longer requires Flash. Unfortunately, it still mandates the running of non-free JavaScript, and is firmly under the thumb of Google. YouTube can be accessed and videos on it can be viewed with a free web browser which supports HTML5, of which there are many. More and more websites now support HTML5 (or similar) video-streaming mechanisms. This is a good thing. For those websites which still require Flash, you should find some way of downloading the video (preferably in an open format).
