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With websites, you know it's on purpose. With dial up, it was just the technology back then
I’m embarrassed to admit how naive I was back in the 90s. I truly and genuinely thought that all limitations were inherently technological in nature.
Even though I knew capitalism was the enemy of humanity, I still very much naively thought that it would keep progressing because “of course it would”.
Just waiting for this epic battle in my browser between YouTube and uBlock Origin to conclude before it finally loads the play button...
When I download a youtube video with yt-dlp, one of the output lines is always
[download] Sleeping 5.00 seconds as required by the site...I think this is hardcoded into the site at this point, especially if you don't use Chrome.