[SoSoRoCoCo]

> What one person calls arcane knowledge is another's everyday tools.

Point taken. If this had been something about Android I'd be staring at my screen drooling like a dog looking at a TV.

[ehsankia]

It's also worth that the author doesn't go too much into detail of the how, and focuses more on the what

> With my first account, I started using YouTube, trying every feature, pressing every button I could find, and whenever I saw an HTTP request with a video ID in it, I changed it to the target Private video

Was this done with some tooling or scripts, or purely by eyeing devtools? I could see that step for example being very similar to "parse WireShark logs", for example.

I agree that the level of detail included makes it fairly readable without being to scary to non-experts.

[bostik]

My money is on Burp proxy.

Pretty much every single web vulnerability researcher uses it, to the point of absurdity. Squint hard enough and screwdrivers have a familiar shape, so you of course you look for a big enough hammer.