Subj : Browsers
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Sep 25 2021 09:00:00

Hello JOE MACKEY!

** On Saturday 25.09.21 - 07:38, JOE MACKEY wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

 >> solie.org doesn't let me do much on the site. It only seems to
 >> support newer browsers.

 JM>   I think of it as Ford vs. Chevy vs Dodge people.  They
 JM>   all do the same thing but one person prefers one over
 JM>   the other.

The car analogy is good up to a point.  With cars, quality can  
play a bit factor over time as the car deteriorates.  Software  
doesn't really deteriorate.  With software "efficiency and  
function" stay the same and do not change.

 JM>   I've found Video Download Helper the best one around for
 JM>   general use. You Tube video and audio downloader for You
 JM>   Tube. Firefox offers multiple video/audio d/l programs
 JM>   as add on's.

I used VDH for a while. I stopped using it for some reason  
(probably because I think it triggered pop-ups or stopped  
working properly when I had my script-killer, adblocker and  
privacy badger tools enabled).

I discovered that youtube-dl seemed to work on many of the non- 
YT sites too, so I just reverted to youtube-dl for those.  But  
youtube-dl doesn't work with the embedded vids at solie.org.

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