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When /some/ YT videos get special download-resistent treatment but not others (fedia.io)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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For example, this invidious instance offers a download option for a YoutTube video, as that instance does for all YT videos:

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg (see update)

Exceptionally, if you opt to download it it merely opens a player to watch realtime. While other downloads from the same invidious instance have no issues. Why is this one getting different treatment?

update Apparently it’s an instance-specific problem with that particular video:

works → https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

broken → https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lU4vv7qCQvg

I’ve seen other instances where this particular video download is broken. AFAIK, invidious.fdn.fr is the only place where it works as expected.

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

Ungoogled Chromium indeed reproduces the issue. But so does the public library, which likely was Firefox in Windows. So i guess it might be hasty to conclude that it’s browser specific, particularly when other videos on the same instance behave differently in the same browser.

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