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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by feanaro on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:14PM (#25117062)
> Likewise, YouTube's rolling cipher can't really validate that it's not sitting inside of an instrumented browser that will dump whatever URLs it grabs.

What is the criteria for differentiating between youtube-dl and a "browser"?

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by sjy on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:22PM (#25117131)
In this case a “browser” is a YouTube client that copyright holders are happy with, because it doesn’t provide any simple way of saving offline copies.
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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by feanaro on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:13AM (#25122385)
I agree. But that's not a viable legal definition.
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