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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by throw74848 on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:27PM (#37474551)
Anyone who uses this tool is violating contract with Google, and may have their Gmail account suspended anytime.

Better to make sure you have backups...

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by musicale on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:36PM (#37474624)
> Anyone who uses this tool is violating contract with Google

A click-through EULA seems a bit different from a contract.

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by skybrian on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:39PM (#37474656)
Does it matter? They could still suspend you. Good luck fighting that.
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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by tourmalinetaco on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:06PM (#37474903)
Good luck getting suspended in the first place, that’d be quite the feat.
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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by jonathankoren on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:40PM (#37474664)
They're not different at all.

https://www.eff.org/wp/dangerous-terms-users-guide-eulas#:~:....

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by musicale on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:44AM (#37506119)
> these dubious "contracts"

Dubious indeed. See also:

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/9/275696-to-regulate-tec...

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by stalfosknight on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:50PM (#37474750)
Good thing I don't have a Google account in the first place.
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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by vanjajaja1 on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:54PM (#37474797)
oof. suspended google account sounds very painful

does the same ruling apply when using something like Kapwing, which downloads the youtube video (probably using this tool)? That could be very painful

edit: this just makes me realise I should transition my stuff to somewhere safer

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by sedatk on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:58PM (#37474836)
How do they ever associate your Youtube account with this tool?
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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by tourmalinetaco on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:05PM (#37474894)
Cookies, maybe? Which would be indistinguishable from a normal usage considering its making the same API calls. Better safe than sorry for important accounts, but if they could catch you en masse for YT-DLP use they would have already.
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