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So the theory is this has nothing to do with security, but is only used to break private video downloading of youtube-dl?

• dleslie 6y ago
  It blocks misrepresentation of agent, in general; automation is also blocked in general, but _especially_ for authentication.
  • dmoy 6y ago
    Sure but if the goal was to block youtube-dl usage, wouldn't they target the vastly more common usecase without authentication?