You can use Chrome's Network Tools to download the files. Hard to argue that it's effective when Google's own software can bypass it out of the box. Just check

You can use Chrome's Network Tools to download the files. Hard to argue that it's effective when Google's own software can bypass it out of the box. Just check the network tab, copy the URL and remove the range parameter. You'll get one for video and another for audio, which you can merge to recover the original file. This is effectively what youtube-dl does.