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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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439 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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superkuh ◴[19 Sep 25 17:25 UTC] No.45304182[source]▶
Youtube is a youtube downloader. Everything is a downloader. It's literally impossible to interact with a thing without downloading it and having the data. The difference is that the data is usually deleted later (a silly practice done to trick the lawyers into believing the world is like they think it is, hiding actual reality that would confuse and enrage them).
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1. tshaddox ◴[19 Sep 25 21:47 UTC] No.45307074[source]▶
The word "download" is used in two senses. The first is the broader sense you're referring to, where it means "to receive data." The second sense means to collect all the data from a particular file or dataset and store it locally, as opposed to "streaming." That second sense is the one clearly being used when referring to "YouTube downloaders."