How they bypass YouTube video download throttling
last updated: Oct 20, 2023
https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-they-bypass-youtube-video-download-throttling/
A nice dive into how youtube throttles videos that aren't able to run a javascript function.
I know that yt-dlp had a javascript interpreter built in for this purpose, but hadn't seen exactly what it's used for in such detail before.