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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by catalogia on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:01PM (#22679525) 

    mpv --no-video [youtube url]
(This uses youtube-dl, without saving it to your hard drive.)
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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by rampant_ai on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:27AM (#22681937)
You're still pulling down the video data itself, it's just being removed after-the-fact. But this will save your battery on a laptop since you're not rendering the video.
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