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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.
I'm a filthy Windows user that's too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.
Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.
You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page