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.

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