3 ms·

> Likewise, YouTube's rolling cipher can't really validate that it's not sitting inside of an instrumented browser that will dump whatever URLs it grabs. What

> Likewise, YouTube's rolling cipher can't really validate that it's not sitting inside of an instrumented browser that will dump whatever URLs it grabs. What is the criteria for differentiating between youtube-dl and a "browser"?

sjy 6y ago
In this case a “browser” is a YouTube client that copyright holders are happy with, because it doesn’t provide any simple way of saving offline copies.
- feanaro 6y ago
  I agree. But that's not a viable legal definition.