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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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494 points Leftium | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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eahm ◴[19 Sep 25 23:25 UTC] No.45308008[source]▶
>The best YouTube downloaders for Windows (and beyond)

Didn't even mention https://3dyd.com

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1. belter ◴[20 Sep 25 12:07 UTC] No.45312626[source]▶
Let me download this random .exe from this conspicuous clean random page in the internet, and run it on my machine...What could go wrong?
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2. eahm ◴[20 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45314079[source]▶
Ah, I can see how it looks, it's just a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg and he's a trusted dev especially in the foobar2000 community. I've been using his sw on and off for 10+ years together with yt-dlp but again, I get your point.