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The browser saves the video in the cache on your HD automatically
by romanoderoma 6y ago
The browser saves the video in the cache on your HD automatically
- nogabebop23 6y agoThere are a lot of arguments against this counter example, including the fact that the browser does not facilitate you getting access in any other way than originally intended (legal) and it honors the caching policy defined for the resource (technical)
- romanoderoma 6y agoI would counter argue that if you are able to use youtube-dl you can explore the cache The opposite cannot be taken for granted But usually someone with very little technical knowledge can find files on their hard disks It requires more than that to be able to run youtube-dl from the shell The technical argument is even weaker, there are dozens of browser extensions that inject a "download video" button in video on demand websites Video downloader professional has over 230k users, it can't download YouTube videos anymore because Chrome blocked it, because Chrome and YouTube are Google's and they don't care if you download videos, they only care about their videos, that show their ads, that make their money youtube-dl serves a niche, a tiny one What RIAA is doing is scaring people off from even trying, because the truth is that the real money is on mobile where youtube-dl doesn't exists... BTW youtube-dl is a f*ng good piece of software, it should be praised not blocked Meanwhile people will keep using JDownloader
- corobo 6y agoIs this still true with DASH because last I heard (which was admittedly ages ago) they break the video up into small chunks now