Re: Emms and youtube-dl

[Richard Stallman]

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  > For maintenance, I do not see much of a difference between using a local
  > scraper, such as 'youtube-dl', and using a remote scraper, such as
  > Invidious.

When you run software on your own machine, you have to be concerned with
maintaining it or updating it.  When you talk to a service, you don't.

For this job, it makes no moral difference whether you talk to
youtube.com or invidious.whatever -- either way, you're downloading
the video from a service.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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