Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.

I clicked on this because I thought it was a mouse with an interesting design and microphone.

The one thing I wouldn’t agree with is ffmpeg.

It does not do one thing. It does a thousand things. The way different functionality works is inconsistent. In some cases you need to read the source code to understand how or why something is happening, as it’s not generated in the already expansive documentation. To me, it’s the antithesis of the UNIX philosophy.

That said, it’s a brilliant piece of software.