For example, they may want to download short clips to use in their videos (honoring the doctrine of fair use, of course). The uploader might pull a video down, YouTube may remove a video in response to a copyright complaint (sometimes legitimate, sometimes not), and a video might disappear if it runs afoul of YouTube’s ever-changing and seemingly haphazard standards for acceptable content.īut preservation isn’t the only reason people download YouTube videos. Like most cloud-based things, YouTube videos are ephemeral-they vanish all the time for all kinds of reasons. There are several reasons you might want to download videos from YouTube. Recent changes in Firefox have broken extensions like DownThemAll, which used to be a handy way to download videos. When I reviewed the video player IINA (see “ Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player,” ), quite a few TidBITS readers took it as an opportunity to vent their frustrations about downloading videos from YouTube.
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