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You should absolutely download your favourite youtube videos (criminallyvulgar.dev)
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[โ€“] LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In tje past years I have downloaded and archived about 200 GB of my favorite YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Most of them are low resolution for storage reasons, so it's a lot more videos than you'd think. Now they can't be taken away from me and I can watch them whenever I want.

[โ€“] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

So yt-dlp can be a bit rough for non-power users. There is a fantastic GUI wrapper for it called Stacher7. I use it daily.