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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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428 points Leftium | 5 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.981s | 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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charcircuit ◴[19 Sep 25 19:58 UTC] No.45305837[source]▶
Downloading videos is a premium feature of YouTube and doesn't delete the data.
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skinnymuch ◴[19 Sep 25 21:38 UTC] No.45306965[source]▶
Can you access those downloads?
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1. charcircuit ◴[19 Sep 25 22:19 UTC] No.45307407[source]▶
Yes, there is a downloads button in the app to see your downloaded videos.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233

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2. nativeit ◴[19 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45307601[source]▶
I'm pretty sure they meant, can the videos be accessed as files in the filesystem, which to my knowledge they cannot.
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3. dzhiurgis ◴[20 Sep 25 00:00 UTC] No.45308275[source]▶
Shit like that should be illegal. I.e. netflix’s downloads expire after 30 days.
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4. lucb1e ◴[20 Sep 25 00:53 UTC] No.45308684{3}[source]▶
Shit? Illegal? It's literally your right on videos like <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEJApMIrLU>. Expand the description and see at the bottom: license is set to creative commons. The copyright holder permits everyone to remix the video but youtube still does not show a button for you to actually make use of that

You need to breach the terms of service (use a downloader) to exercise the rights of the content license that youtube supports

5. skinnymuch ◴[20 Sep 25 06:12 UTC] No.45310879[source]▶
As the other sister comment said. I was replying to you saying YouTube has downloading in a thread about file access. I use the YouTube premium offline access, it’s nice but I only have premium for mobile background.