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Григорий Клюшников

The stream URL is only valid for a limited time because reasons. It reloads the page to get a new one.

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dmitriid

@grishka

Spotify knows how to re-auth the user without a full page reload. Somehow Youtube can't

The more I look at Google's products the less I believe in the myth of amazing Google engineers :)

Niki Tonsky

@dmitriid @grishka yeah but why? E.g. spotify needs to check for ads, but Youtube videos are public?

dmitriid

@nikitonsky @grishka

Youtube also needs to check for ads since they also have free vs. premium.

It could be that their frontend/backend combination and the 13678 ways of logging in cannot do the auth song and dance properly, and need a full auth re-flow

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