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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by hollerith on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:45PM (#37474705)
By "download feature", do you mean download into private storage of the Youtube app of a smart phone (so that the video can be viewed when the phone is not connected) or do you mean download a video file that can be played in the player of the user's choice?

(I'm asking because I've never been a paying user of Youtube.)

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by xp84 on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:59PM (#37474848)
This is fair, and yes it's 100% "download into an encrypted area on a closed platform device and self-destruct for no reason after 30 days," not "download it so that you have the video and can reliably play it offline or re-encode into a different format."

YouTube itself is the lamest entity to be wasting time fighting youtube-dl because I doubt most creators want that protection. I can see why say, NBC.com or whoever doesn't want to be sued by the content owners for letting people download a show. But YouTube? The site that shows videos to anyone without a subscription? Interesting choice of where to focus your attention, Google.

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Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes by svieira on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:57PM (#37474824)
The former
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