thanks for the link, there were a few options in about:config that I hadn’t set to false
although even after going through all those Firefox says Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled. so even if it’s not being sent it appears that it’s still being collected. (about:telemetry)
maybe it will change after reboot, I will edit later if that’s the case.
I switched to Firefox 6 months ago and it’s working much better than Chromium for me, I do have some minor complaints but for the most part it’s been equivalent or better.
However I can’t seem to turn off the telemetry at all…
tl:dr no you’re not dumb, and it’s as easy as dragging and dropping a folder over to the sidebar
Oh sorry, I updated the “crosspost” where someone suggested doing just that but forgot to update this post. (To be fair on reddit crossposts are actual cross posts instead of two separate posts)
Anyway, apparently it was really that easy. GUI solutions for GUI problems
Although I did notice that Firefox seems to be using another file manager/browser than most of my other programs so I had to add some directories twice, but otherwise they’re kind of global.
To be honest the ideal would be some system-wide directories but then also app-specific directories to avoid having tons of irrelevant directory shortcuts. (e.g. having video & music directories only for media players, torrent files for torrent clients, .gba files for gba emulators, etc.)
Interesting. I’m pretty sure it was on AUR when I installed quite a while back, but looks like it’s in Extra now yeah.
It does make sense though since youtube-dl hasn’t been working for about a year.
I should’ve checked before commenting
like I said only the original youtube-dl package is in extra but it stopped working a while back.
since then I’ve been using the youtube-dl fork yt-dlp that OP mentioned, but it’s in aur atm since it hasn’t gotten as recognized as it’s a fork (I assume)
Basically yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, and unlike youtube-dl it’s in aur instead of extra.
At least last I checked all youtube-dl forks are in aur, but you have to use yt-dlp (or maybe one of the other forks) since youtube-dl doesn’t work anymore.
Edit: It seems yt-dlp was at some point moved from AUR to Extra. I was half expecting it to happen eventually since youtube-dl stopped working about a year ago, but I never noticed it happening.
Either way, as it’s a package on extra instead of AUR there’s a lot less of a security concern for anyone worried about that.
Original comment:
I have yt-dlp from the AUR (Arch User Repository). youtube-dl package also exists, and it’s on extra, but it stopped working about half a year ago
great. I tried to play the original a few years ago but I didn’t manage to get it to run