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Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by m-p-3 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:33PM (#24961024)
Yeah, and many apps are based or borrow code from YouTube-DL to achieve this.

For example NewPipe (Android) and FreeTube (Windows MacOS, Linux)

Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 by MaxBarraclough on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:12PM (#24961291)
VLC too. [0]

As someone pointed out recently, [1] this presumably breaks the YouTube terms of service, as presumably does any use of youtube-dl.

[0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894425