This is the reason. When an app changes so often, across different platforms, you don't want to support people lagging behind on old versions.

I'm not saying native is better or worse, but this will be why.

It says you have to click and hold

Sure, but (I think this is what the commenter was asking about), it has to hit the page in order to generate the preview, does it not?

Yes, but clicking also results in your browser having to hit the page. The concern is doing so accidentally, which is reasonable if it required a hover interaction (but luckily, it doesn't).

Obviously but you are triggering it, if you don’t do it it won’t do it.

Safari is exactly the same on iOS at least.

Great defense against QR code scams too.

I think the OP's question was maintaining the higher quality stream, not the act of ripping.

That doesn't seem hard to pull off. Just record the stream multiple times and splice/replace the low quality bits.

The FTP topsite scene is extremely competitive and anyone doing multiple rips to splice together would lose the race to leak the show.

The best WEB-DL groups are internal P2P - FLUX (HDB) and NTb (BTN).

They both (afaik) do hybrid releases by taking e.g. audio or DV metadata from one service and merging it with another source.

Funnily enough, even for UHD remuxes, P2P groups are top-tier (like Wildcat and Framestor).

Check out Photoprism too, also very good. I've not settled on Immich quite yet, but it is very nice.

Self hosted Gitea will mirror a repo for you - I'm not sure on an entire account though.

It's not fragmented like video is. You go to your favourite music streaming platform and listen. You don't need to check all 10 services you pay for to work out if the artist is available on it.

Right, but why is it that way?

How did they manage to consolidate all music into 1 service and why can't or won't that work for video?

Music downloads became viable a lot earlier, and so the companies are a decade+ ahead on the dealing with sharing angle.

This is why I asked the question.

So if the case is simply that music downloads and streaming were earlier then there is hope for video downloads and streaming to eventually catch up?

It feels like right now though that video access is becoming more fragmented still, rather than more consolidated.

Probably, but there are other variables. Different sets of folks, and the fact that video consumption is not repeated as often.

We've seen a bit of progress recently—they stated in the news that Netflix won this round of the "streaming wars." Disney is thinking of allowing a some things back over there due to being heavily in the red.

Perhaps a sign that selfish-destructive behavior of the cartel has peaked.

It depends on what artists you listen to. Some artists have pulled out of certain streaming services: famously Neil Young left Spotify after some dispute.

There's also some unfortunate music which seems to be in licensing hell so it never ends up on streaming platforms, but I haven't noticed it with famous artists.

But yeah, for most music you're way less likely to have issues streaming their content.

That’s a good point - I wonder why the two industries evolved differently.

I would think exclusive music would add much greater product stickiness than exclusive video content.

Someone might listen to Taylor Swift on every gym session, but how many people are going to watch Stranger Things twice?

That's a good question. I'd love to see Netflix's stats. Some people really are going to watch the same show over and over again. Like the office.

No, we like to use imperial and metric in the UK.

But it's very rare for us to use lbs as a measurement of weight (at least directly)

No you use "stones" for peoples weight. Which I consider to be the least useful unit of measurement in common use today.

I live in the UK and I use the metric system for pretty much everything, including weighing humans.

Everything except driving speed, for obvious reasons.

And if you did for some reason, you'd almost certainly write it as lbs rather than pounds to avoid this entire thing.

Reminds of me of Tony Abbott getting hacked https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

You don't need your own email server to switch your MX records to Proton or Zoho...

Surely moving away from Google is the answer here?