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		hedora on Nov 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if cr... I wonder if it’s a coincidence that youtube-dl was nearly taken down immediately before Google created a massive incentive for people to bulk migrate data off their platform.

Kye on Nov 19, 2020 [–]

Channel owners can already download the original videos from the backend.

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