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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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490 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.359s | source
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Wowfunhappy ◴[19 Sep 25 20:32 UTC] No.45306196[source]▶
> Google needs YouTube downloaders. They perform a valuable role: If it were impossible to download YouTube videos, many organizations would abandon hosting their videos on YouTube for a platform that offered more user flexibility. Or they’d need to host a separate download link and put it in their YouTube descriptions. But organizations don’t need to jump through hoops -- they just let people use YouTube downloaders.

I don't think I believe this, as much as I'd like to. How many organizations would really consider this a critical need? My guess is, not enough for Google to care.

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1. ghaff ◴[20 Sep 25 12:48 UTC] No.45312940[source]▶
If you talk about the vast majority of corporate videos (and written material) they mostly don’t care about access after 18 months or so. And in fact may well actively want to scrub them because info is no longer accurate.