I had this same idea around 2012ish. And had the naive impression that you could cache youtube videos on a proxy level (using Squid). Boy was I wrong, even then

I had this same idea around 2012ish. And had the naive impression that you could cache youtube videos on a proxy level (using Squid). Boy was I wrong, even then YT was employing heavy tactics to prevent people from caching videos at the native http cache header level. And it was at that point I realized something was wrong with the internet.