Yes, he's at the mercy of YouTube since he's building on the platform in violation of its ToS. But as a consumer, you can use the youtube-dl script (https://rg

Yes, he's at the mercy of YouTube since he's building on the platform in violation of its ToS. But as a consumer, you can use the youtube-dl script (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) along with mpv (https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/) to play YouTube videos as you wish. Example: mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ mpv <pretty much any video / streaming site in existence> Both packages are available in your nearest package manager, i.e. brew for MacOS, MSYS2 for Windows, etc.