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Hello Rob Swindell!

** On Saturday 22.01.22 - 14:31, Rob Swindell wrote to August Abolins:

 RS>> I use it and 4K Video Downloader (for Windows) sometimes
 RS>> too/instead. I'm amazed (and very glad) that YT lets them
 RS>> work at all! :-)

Is there something that YT can detect to disallow it entirely?

I got a bit frustrated with 4K VD for some sreason and decided  
to stick with youtube-dl.  ytd also allows downloading any  
video file that has a direct link.  It works on Rumble and  
Vimeo videos too.


 RS> BTW, I can confirm, youtube-dl is very slow (e.g.
 RS> 52.56KiB/s) these days. But I think it's been that way for
 RS> a while now, at least for me. --digital man (rob)

Thx for that.  I only noticed the slowdown within a week or  
two.
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