Why can't we download videos easily?
On reddit, twitter, and similar sites. I understand YouTube (obviously) but why do these sites go to such extensive methods to block casual downloading? It's kinda pointless because technical users can always figure it out, there's even downloader bots now. So what's the incentive?
Offline videos can reduce the traffic to main sites. No traffic, no ads. No ads, no Dolla $$$.
You can, youtube is the easiest and fastest.
How come YouTube is "obviously" but Twitter and Reddit are a question... !??
YouTube has ads before videos. Twitter and reddit just show ads around the posts
Use YouTube-dl, mate https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md
How's ellation? You work on crunchyroll?
It’s got its ups and downs. I wish they would let us improve crunchyroll instead of building a new shiny replacement for the 4th time. How’s your personal Microsoft outlook?
Presumably so you share again with your friends using their platform or links into it rather than downloading and re-uploading elsewhere.
I wonder how much money they gain from that