[d0lphin]

It's actually already broken. If you try to download more than 3-16 videos (the limit is not clear), you start to be rate limited to 300 kbps or so. According to Reddit this is fixed in a fork called yt-dlp

[ketralnis]

To be honest that sounds fine. You're presumably downloading it to watch it offline, the download speed isn't really material as long as it finishes eventually

[majewsky]

youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.

[geerlingguy]

One other workaround is to use '-F' to get a list of formats, and choose one of the non-default formats to download. This seems to work for me.