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FWIW, I subscribe to YouTube Premium which lets me download videos, watch them without ads, and also includes YouTube Music (essentially like Spotify but withou
by dangoor 6y ago
FWIW, I subscribe to YouTube Premium which lets me download videos, watch them without ads, and also includes YouTube Music (essentially like Spotify but without as good a recommendation engine).
If, for some reason, I really wanted to download a video to have a copy of it forever, I'd use youtube-dl
- evan_ 6y agoYouTube premium lets you “download” videos but I don’t think it doesn’t actually let you get an MP4 file. It just lets you watch the video offline.
- ls612 6y agoBut normal YouTube videos aren’t DRMed at all so you should be able to find the file in cleartext somewhere on your hdd
- evan_ 6y agoI don’t think you can use that feature on the web. It’s mobile app only. Maybe you can use adb to grab them off an android device but it’s not nearly as easy as youtube-dl. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were DRM’d in that scenario anyway.
- makeworld 6y agoIn another thread someone explained that the videos were stored in their original chunked format, so it wouldn't be that easy to just extract it.
- dangoor 6y agoTrue. That's a good clarification to make