Displaying posts tagged: javascript
2009-12-01 16:45:01
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Almost exactly a year ago I wrote what turned out to be a pretty popular bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos. Last month YouTube announced adding 1080p as a playback format. Catching wind of that a few days ago, I decided I'd go back and check to see if they still worked.
Nope. I guess that betrays ...
2009-06-12 13:33:14
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This definitely has not gotten enough attention.
Originally discussed here in 2006 by a team of people from Stanford, there exists a class of attacks on browsers that enables one to identify which sites a user has visited through either their caching mechanism or CSS. The white paper can be read here, but in short:
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2008-12-09 18:45:45
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Update
Out with the old, in with the new. It has been quite a while since this article was written, and it was seriously out of date. I have updated the bookmarklets, included here for convenience. Be sure to use these links here at the top, and click and drag them to your bookmarks bar.
YouTube ...
2008-12-08 17:54:13
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I've been fiddling around with YouTube's swfArgs['fmt_map'] value to see if I can use it to programmatically identify which formats exist for a given video but I'm running into a wall... I don't have a large enough sample set to confirm my results, and the YouTube HD shift is so recent that there aren't other resources.
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2008-12-03 14:50:10
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