what is the YouTube-as-a-CDN use case?
a link to a watch page is not really that
and there is no way to point players to the underlying hls or video stream for youtube videos (afaik)
you can _scrape_ them (a la yt dl) but that's something else
John Spurlock /
npub1g2…pachf
2024-08-16 13:40:00
in reply to nevent1q…f0gk
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