Source: Google Locks Down Access to Videos of ‘TGIF’ Meetings Following Breitbart Scoop

Breitbart ^ | 9/14/2018 | Allum Bokhari

[MarMema]

But uh, why would they, uh, do that?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Are those red and yellow propeller beanies for sale anywhere. They’d make a powerful “I’m a jerk” statement.

[Magnum44]

😆

[Paladin2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDZ5lriIIc&feature=player_embedded

Folk Song Army - Tom Lehrer

[Liz]

......those red and yellow propeller beanies make a powerful “I’m a Google jerk” statement......

ROTFLOL........advertising you're a jerk makes the tech titans.....uuuuummmmmm......."more human."

[Wonder Warthog]

"It was a private company, and a monopoly for the service provided."

While it was a monopoly, it was HEAVILY regulated by both state and federal governments. Eventually, that monopoly status was found to impede competition, and Bell was broken up into smaller subdivisions.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the mention. I do use one, so could be...

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[DoughtyOne]

Looks like Asian privilege to me...

“:^)

[DoughtyOne]

Would that be Brian Stelter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Stelter

If this wasn’t the guy, let me know and I’ll see what I can find.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You can still watch the video on Breitbart:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/

I know how to download YouTube videos, but not Breitbart videos.

[Eagles6]

Yep.

[cynwoody]

That ledger sounds like the Chinese Social Credit System. Very un-American.

[cynwoody]

I know how to download YouTube videos, but not Breitbart videos.

Some clues can be found in this snippet of JSON, which Breitbart's player (jwplayer.com) downloads as it prepares to show the flick:

"duration": 3805,
"image": "https://content.jwplatform.com/thumbs/TYgVGuSC-720.jpg",
"link": "https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/TYgVGuSC",
"mediaid": "TYgVGuSC",
"pubdate": 1536775268,
"recommendations": "https://content.jwplatform.com/v2/playlists/7StNPlvE?related_media_id=TYgVGuSC",
"sources": [
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/manifests/TYgVGuSC.m3u8",
        "type": "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"
    },
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/TYgVGuSC-25GFhifI.mp4",
        "height": 180,
        "label": "180p",
        "type": "video/mp4",
        "width": 320
    },
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/TYgVGuSC-ilPKdA1q.mp4",
        "height": 270,
        "label": "270p",
        "type": "video/mp4",
        "width": 480
    },
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/TYgVGuSC-TpzG6ZCv.mp4",
        "height": 406,
        "label": "406p",
        "type": "video/mp4",
        "width": 720
    },
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/TYgVGuSC-khrfltxf.mp4",
        "height": 720,
        "label": "720p",
        "type": "video/mp4",
        "width": 1280
    },
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/TYgVGuSC-PoBJ2M9o.m4a",
        "label": "AAC Audio",
        "type": "audio/mp4"
    }
],
"tags": "Google,2016",
"title": "Leaked Video Shows Google Leadership In Dismay At 2016 Election",
"tracks": [
    {
        "file": "https://content.jwplatform.com/strips/TYgVGuSC-120.vtt",
        "kind": "thumbnails"
    }
],
"variations": {}

Pick your resolution and download away. Or, if you want to watch at 1280x720, paste the corresponding URL into your browser's location bar and widen the window until the video box stops getting bigger.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I viewed the source but couldn’t figure out what to do. Thanks!

[cynwoody]

As it happens, I have JavaScript disabled for Breitbart, due to its excessively busy ad-tech engine. The video player requires JS, so no video for me.

What I did was to use the Chrome Inspector to view the IFRAME element housing the video player. I grabbed the IFRAME's URL and opened it in another window to watch the show and get my ration of Schadenfreude (I don't have JS disabled for jwplatform.com, so the video plays when opened in a stand-alone tab).

When I saw your post, I decided to go back and try it again, this time watching the player's network traffic. Modern video players are designed to adapt to conditions, such as viewport size and network conditions. Bigger window, select a higher-resolution stream. Too slow buffering, downgrade the resolution. Making this work requires coordination with the server before the actual media downloading begins.

I opened the JavaScript console, selected the Network tab, and pressed the XHR button to cut down the bedlam. Then I reloaded the tab to take it from the top. Sure enough, one of the first things it did was to download that JSON I posted. That was all I needed to see.

[The Westerner]

Are those wheely bird hats photoshopped on or are they worn to distinguish leadership from worker bees?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don’t know much about javascript. I played with it but couldn’t figure out how to download it. I might try the firefox flash downloader addon. That works a lot of the time. Have to install it first.

[cynwoody]

Those are called Noogler hats and are passed out to new employees at their first TGIF meeting.

[The Westerner]

How humiliating.