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YouTube's war on video downloaders

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LittleDas75

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on: February 24, 2025, 02:01:50 PM
The free YouTube video downloaders have recently become not so free. In order to download videos above 360p they now force you to download a app called iFlyDown, but you need to use money in order to download the videos. How do I know this is YouTube's doing, because most of the video downloaders have this now and I have a feeling they didn't make this change willingly.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2025, 03:33:45 PM by LittleDas75 »

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Reply #1 on: February 24, 2025, 05:18:38 PM
That's sad.

I use various free downloaders, switching them when one becomes outdated or paid.

Last time I used 4K Video Downloader. I didn't check if it's still free and works.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2025, 06:58:09 PM by Sneak »

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Reply #2 on: February 24, 2025, 05:59:21 PM
4K Video Downloader still appears to work, though they capped free downloads to 10 per day. Have you tried yt-dlp?

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