I use Seal. It works fine. It has trouble downloading from “official” pages though (e.g. Vevo or Universal or whatever). It’s like those pages, since they’re owned by corporate entities, have some extra protection on them or something. It’s been like this for years, across Android, Windows, Mac, etc – doesn’t matter what I try to use to download, it’ll fail on those pages/accounts.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This reeks of same shit different day or at least different month. Last time if I recall you had to include a valid cookie with yt-dlp.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve never had to “include a valid cookie”, though there’s been various problems and they can vary from video to video.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Any IP on the local ISP requires a google login to work. Very few work without the cookie generated from it.
Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I downloaded this morning with yt-dlp and American rented mullvar servers (seal for android)
Never have logged in
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Weird. I haven’t downloaded anything for a month or so (other than running into a different issue on somesomething), but I haven’t had to do that for any video for the several years I’ve been downloading.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this maybe much more common on common VPN IPs? Not what I think you meant by “local ISP”, but would make a lot more sense to me.
Killer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You don’t need to afaik.
The only time i’ve had to include cookies is if i was trying to download something that was a premium feature like enhanced bitrate.