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Comment by cheschire

3 years ago

Is yt-dlp's implementation being better the reason why I have fewer throttling issues than with youtube-dl?

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LeoPanthera  3 years ago

Maybe this isn't true anymore, but for a while they would hit different APIs. yt-dlp was using the Android YouTube API because it had no throttling.

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