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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by attack-surface on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:44PM (#29596444)
Came here to say this. I even tried with a VPN to see if the download speed wasn't throttled with it, but it's still ridiculously slow.

Thinking of switching to yt-dlp, but then how does yt-dlp get around the throttling? Does it emulate a browser to make it look like a normal viewing of a video?

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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by pdimitar on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:16PM (#29596999)
Honest question: why do you care how? It does circumvent it quite efficiently.

But I've seen somebody here in this thread mentioning that yt-dlp emulates the YouTube Android client.

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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by canadaduane on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:25PM (#29598532)
Sometimes when you know the "trick" you can better predict how long it will last, and how long you can rely on it continuing to work.
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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by Spare_account on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:26PM (#29597171)
>Honest question: why do you care how?

Aren't you interested to find out? It sounds like it would be interesting to know how they did it.

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Re:YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021 by pdimitar on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:30PM (#29597233)
Not one bit. I only care if it works and whether it works fast enough. I get that other devs might care, it's just that I personally don't.
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