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counterpoint: yt-dlp




yt-dlp is easily detected by Google and constantly getting itself blocked. It's allowed to the extent that they don't care about low level scraping. Look at their known issues:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766

YouTube blocks are listed in a section titled "Intractable issues".




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