Re:YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
by sedatk on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:58PM
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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
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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.