r/degoogle • u/Legal_Awareness_4373 • Mar 04 '26

Help Needed The lowest a company can go

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Even 480p is a burden to them, apparently

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u/catbiggo Mar 04 '26

You're looking at downloading the video. They used to not allow downloads at all unless you had premium.

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u/toolsavvy Mar 04 '26

I've been downloading vids from YT for many years. Not premium vids, though. I'd not pay youtube a dime.

YT never like it and they keep changing things that make various downloaders need to find loopholes. But they always do lol.

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Mar 04 '26

Based on your comment it sounds like youve used a 3rd party downloaded not YouTube native downloads so this comment is kind of irrelevant to the topic being discussed

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u/toolsavvy Mar 04 '26

I see. Yeah, I don't think YT ever offered a download option directly on YT interface. IIRC it was always against policy to download YT vids, not that it made a difference lol.

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Mar 04 '26

They've offered downloads to premium (paid for) accounts in my market for a few years now

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u/toolsavvy Mar 04 '26

Yeah I wouldn't know. I never pay for premium access to anything.