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by highwind 1010 days ago
There used to be a time where you can load up a YouTube video on the site and go offline then watch the video.

You can't do that any more, unless you actively find a way to download the said video.

2 comments

Uh, youtube absolutely has a save for offline viewing option.
In the browser and without paying for Premium on mobile?
You can do it with YouTube premium
Or use whatever YouTube-dl is called now.
I feel this comment in my very core. I have an unusually hard time remembering “yt-dlp”. Glad I’m not the only one
I just have to type yt and let shell history search find it for me every time.
I created a shell alias.
yt-dlp