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Cool background - Derek created CDBaby back in the day.

Cool dude. Check out his interview on the Tim Ferris podcast for context on why you might want the tech independence this script enables

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I've read for of his books, which he sold in a package deal for cheap last year.

And he's working on a new one: https://sive.rs/u

Starts at 24 minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BaDQCjqUHU

To format a YouTube URL that is indexed to a particular time, just add the minutes/seconds after it like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BaDQCjqUHU#t=24m

(or NNs for seconds, or MMmNNs etc.)

I note that format doesn't work with Invidious, it only handles the older(?) format using & instead of # : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BaDQCjqUHU&t=24m

Ah. I get around those issues by paying for YouTube, because as a Gen X’er I believe in paying for good services. :P (And its recommendations are excellent, now that Google knows me so well. LOL)

Now I check, Youtube still generates timestamped URLs with it in the query string. I wonder where the # alternative comes from.

I hand-made the URL. I could have used a querystring as well, but the pound symbol usually indexes down to a particular part of a page, so it makes sense that they would also make it index to a particular part of a video

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