• monobot@lemmy.ml
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          Yes, the article is not very good. Main players here are google and gihub. My experience with media is that they often don’t publish everything, sometimes because of incompetence sometimes for sponsor money. So we have to use our heads a bit.

          Not even mentioning google, not even.asking google what they think of youtube-dl, not even asking MS to comment. Give us at least a question and ‘they said no comment’.

          Not really good reporting and we got used to that.

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    This seems like it would follow along the same lines as emulators and torrent downloaders. If you don’t download anything illegal with it, you’re not doing anything wrong. I use this software for work to download good resolution/low filesize copies of my client’s videos. Hopefully I can continue using it.

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      All else fails, grab yt-dlp. It’s a fork that I tend to find works better than normal youtube-dl anyway.

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      I don’t even think you need to go as far as comparing it to emulators and torrent downloaders. It just downloads what’s publicly hosted on the web, it’s no different from a web browser basically.

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      Yes, that would be for the best.

      Similar to how certain VPN/Mail clients/journalists (due to leaks) and others are in non-western areas.

      I am forgetting some…

      edit: word

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        There is some difference between private communication and open source code that smis available to anyone.