On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:24 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, February 11, 2014 a las 10:42:55AM +0200, clutton escribió: > > > > > This is highly concerning due to 'phoning home' and installing whatever > > > > (mal-) software or due to DNS redirects to some malware side. > > > > > > > > The Linux friends patch the source to disable the --update option; see > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1063469 > > > > > > > > Shouldn't we do the same? > > > > > > > > Thx > > > > > > > > matthias > > > > > > I don't think that this is a big deal. Write to the maintainer first > > > anyway. > > > > > > You can also try my firefox addon: > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-to-HTML5 > > > > > > Sometime it doesn't work because of youtube ajax nature. Reloading page > > > will make it work. I doesn't have a time to fix this now. Anyway, it > > > always works when a new tab opens. > > > > O. I'd already advertised my addon to you. Sorry for repeating :). > > The addon have been improved since that time. It doesn't wait until > > youtube player fails. It fixes it before running now. > > Your post has less todo with the raised concern re/ youtube-dl update > option. > > And, is your software somehow OpenSource or another piece of binary? > > Thx > > matthias
Yes, it's Open Source, you'll find the github link on the addon page. It's under MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE.
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