Comment by basilikum
6 hours ago
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
6 hours ago
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...